The Ones No One Keeps: The Weight of Names (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798245064307)

Six months after breaking the system, Seren Holt is still waiting.

The man she remembered into existence remains trapped in the substrate-the vast reservoir of compressed absence beneath the city. The names have been read. The dissolved have been acknowledged. But the barrier between worlds still holds, and the city's infrastructure is dying without the energy that forgetting once provided.

When Seren discovers that the Archivum's founders built a failsafe-a machine designed to drain the substrate completely and destroy everyone within it-she knows she must act. The council's hardliners are already searching for it. They see annihilation as salvation.

But the crisis in her city is only the beginning. Other cities have built their own systems of forgetting. Other substrates hold their own dissolved. And they are all connected-a network of absence spanning the world, now destabilizing in ways no one predicted.

To save him, Seren will have to do more than break a machine. She will have to help break an entire system of erasure that has sustained civilization for centuries.

And she will have to decide what she's willing to sacrifice for a man who still has no name.