So much is forgotten in the Republic: the way the seasons used to turn like pages in a book, the technology
that once made life easy for everyone, even the art of reading. For fifteen-year-old June, the forgetting goes
even deeper, ever since a mysterious accident six years ago stole her mother and her memory. When a strange
circus with ties to her family comes through town, she follows them without a second thought. In the outside
world, June has to navigate a landscape and society pushed to the edge by the powerful forces of climate
change, and to decide who she can trust in a world where everyone seems to have secrets. Can she believe the
grizzled deputy who somehow knows more about her past than she does? What about the circus performers,
who push her away even as they beguile her best friend? Only when she finally uncovers a truth that threatens
to change the Republic forever, will she know who her true family is— and whose life is worth saving.
