Every night, Amara dreams of a life that isn't hers—and a man she's never met who's trying to save a world that's burning. For three months, librarian Amara Walsh has been haunted by vivid dreams of cobblestone streets, paint-stained hands, and a mysterious man creating desperate art in a city consumed by flames. She wakes each morning with impossible memories: the taste of her grandmother's soup, though she never had a grandmother. The sound of children laughing in empty buildings. The feeling of being utterly, completely loved. Then the man from her dreams walks into her library. Elias Chen is searching for a book that doesn't exist, asking about a place called Meridian Grove that no one remembers. But when their eyes meet, Amara knows with terrifying certainty that her dreams aren't dreams at all—they're fragments of a life that was stolen from her before she was old enough to remember it.