What We Forgot: A Novel of Memory, Secrets and Deception

A calendar page in red ink: ELE NÃO SABE - he doesn't know. A voicemail from her own voice: Don't forget what he said. Don't let him make it disappear.He remembers the pregnancy as the happiest time of their lives - painting the nursery together, choosing a name, feeling their daughter kick for the first time. She doesn't remember any of it. Eight weeks. Gone. Not misplaced. Not hazy. Erased.When Joel finds a hidden envelope containing a calendar page in Nora's handwriting - words she doesn't remember writing - he begins an investigation he can't share with her. When Nora finds a voicemail from her own voice - a warning she doesn't remember recording - she begins an investigation she can't share with him.Both searches lead to the same place: a doctor's office, a medical file, and the clinical description of something that happened to Joel during the pregnancy. Something Nora witnessed. Something Joel's mind erased. Something they both agreed to forget.Now, in their new house with their three-year-old daughter, the forgetting is unraveling. And what's underneath isn't a secret between them.It's a secret inside him.What We Forgot is the second book in the His Version, Her Version series - a literary domestic suspense told in dual POV about the stories couples build to survive, and the moment when the body remembers what the mind chose to forget.For readers of Lisa Jewell, Ashley Audrain, and Tarryn Fisher.Book 1, What We Left, is available now.

Pages: 307, Paperback, Independently published