The Forgotten (Paperback)

Paperback. By nineteen, Josephina has become the program's cleanest success - an operative shaped by years of obedience drills, sensory reconditioning, and the systematic erasure of everything she once was. When a rogue operative known only as Asp begins eliminating personnel tied to the black-site facility that raised her, Josephina is sent to neutralize the threat. But Asp is not simply killing - Asp is collecting evidence, compiling files, preparing to drag the program's atrocities into the light. Every body dropped is a message. Every document stolen brings exposure closer.Josephina's loyalty is engineered. Her purpose, simple. Hunt. Contain. Correct.But memories don't vanish - they wait. Twelve years earlier, seven children were taken from the foster system and processed into weapons, swearing a blood oath to protect one another. Now, as Josephina closes in, fragments of who she used to be begin to surface - and she finds herself facing the one target the program never trained her to destroy.The Forgotten is a standalone dark psychological thriller about what happens when the system that unmade you sends you to destroy the only person who remembers what you were before. Content warning: graphic violence, child abuse (physical, psychological, and sexual - non-graphic), torture, institutional dehumanization, forced child combat, death of children, and coerced complicity. This book does not flinch. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…