Shepherd, Peng

Some places, you won't find on any maps. Others, are only on maps, Nell Young has lived her life in and around maps. Her father, Dr David Young, was one of the most respected cartographers in the world. He's also just been found dead; in his office at the New York Public Library. Nell hadn't spoken to him in years; ever since he fired her after an argument over a seemingly worthless highway roadside map. A map which was mass-produced, and every copy of which is being found and destroyed. But why? Answering that question will take Nell on a dangerous journey into the heart of a conspiracy beyond belief, a secret about her family, and the true power that lies in maps.

A young woman discovers a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history.

In a future where people's shadows have started inexplicably disappearing and those same people develop a strange new magic power--at the cost of losing all their past memories--husband and wife Ory and Max have escaped the Forgetting and live relatively normally in an abandoned hotel lost in the Virginia woods. Then one day their greatest fear comes to them--Max loses her shadow. Knowing she will soon forget everything about Ory, Max flees. Ory follows, desperate to spend their remaining time together. However, the world outside the hotel has changed, and on their separate journeys each must search for answers about love, hope, and survival.

During a plague-like phenomenon, people are losing their shadows. The change gives them a strange new power, but at a terrible price: it takes away their memories. Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max's shadow disappears too.