Ten years after her best friend Blythe dies by suicide following an assault, Tamsin Rowe is condemned by the whole town as the woman who protected the attacker. Hated, isolated, and dying, Tamsin has spent years refusing to reveal the name everyone demands. Then Imogen, once her closest friend, returns as the country’s richest woman and drags Tamsin onto a public Memory Trial. The device was made for death-row criminals, and every extracted memory will be broadcast to the world. As the trial begins, Tamsin begs Imogen to stop. Some truths, once exposed, can never be buried again.

Ten years after her best friend Blythe dies by suicide following an assault, Tamsin Rowe is condemned by the whole town as the woman who protected the attacker. Hated, isolated, and dying, Tamsin has spent years refusing to reveal the name everyone demands. Then Imogen, once her closest friend, returns as the country’s richest woman and drags Tamsin onto a public Memory Trial. The device was made for death-row criminals, and every extracted memory will be broadcast to the world. As the trial begins, Tamsin begs Imogen to stop. Some truths, once exposed, can never be buried again.