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An eerie tale offering equal measures of fright angst and emotional catharsisKirkus starred review

A teenage girl must save her town from a memorydevouring monster in this piercing exploration of grief trauma and memory from the author of The Valley and the Flood

For generations a monster called the Memory Eater has lived in the caves of Whistler Beach Maine surviving off the unhappy memories of those who want to forget And for generations the Harlows have been in charge of keeping her locked upand keeping her fed

After her grandmother dies seventeenyearold Alana Harlow inherits the family business But theres something Alana doesnt know the strange gaps in her memory arent from an accident Her memories have been takeneaten And with them shes lost the knowledge of how to keep the monster contained

Now the Memory Eater is loose Alanas mistake could cost Whistler Beach everythingunless she can figure out how to retrieve her memories and recapture the monster But as Alana delves deeper into her familys magic and the history of her town she discovers a shocking secret at the center of the Harlow family business and learns that tampering with memoriesalways comes at a price