Kira allows herself to be hypnotized by her friends at a sleepover. Kira reveals her memory of fleeing danger from a country where people speak a different language. Kira's eccentric mother will not talk about their past and suddenly disappears. A woman shows up claiming to be Kira's Aunt Memory from a community called Crythe in Eastern Europe, where memories are valued above all else. Kira learns from her aunt that her mother is being held hostage and she is the only person who can save her. Kira and her friend, Lynne, travel across the continent and are involved in political intrigue, deception, kidnapping and blackmail.

English language arts grade 8 (2009).