The story takes place in a fictional city call Canaan where all things are pleasant up until the twelfth year when the Forgetting occurs and everything that is not written down is forgotten. The city of Canaan is portrayed as a medieval city with gigantic stone walls surrounding the premises.
Nadia is the only one who knows exactly what the truth is because she is the only one who hasn't forgotten. But when Nadia starts to use her memory to solve the mysteries of her
city, she starts to learn the truth about her and Gray. Gray is the supporting character who grows quit rapidly throughout the story and becomes heartbreaking in the story's climax.
Nadia is determined to to stop an unseen enemy who is threatening the lives of the citizens of Canaan, with the help of Gray. She can't fight this character physically, as she must convince the city that she speaks the truth.
What happens in the story is actually very crazy. Nadia and Gray find out that the major councilman is a manipulator who torchers the citizens and reads the journals and posions the citizens with the food that they eat every twelve years.
Gray and Nadia end of killing the council women and giving out the medicine to anyone who wishes to have it so that they aren't affected by the next Forgetting which is in just a couple of days.
She does undergo some physical threats, but it comes down to a war of words in the end and it’s riveting reading. This action of this book never has a dry spell.