Nothing Forgets

She can read the worst thing that ever happened to any object. Now the people who built the conspiracy want to buy the one person who can read them.

Five weeks after the Aurelian trial collapsed, a dead man's key ring lands on Detective Olivia Stark's desk with a note that says only: Keys remember doors. One flat brass key opens a steel door in a Swiss free port, and behind it, Everett Lowe swears, is everything he kept against the nine people who paid for the gold-film lattice that nearly destroyed fifteen lives.

Then the gifts begin.

A cold-case unit, funded and staffed, with Olivia's name on the door. A clinic for the survivors. A rare antique lock for her father, a retired locksmith who has not been asked for anything in years. A student loan paid off. A boy's place on a transplant list. Each gift is kind, generous, and impossible to refuse without hurting someone Olivia loves, and each is signed by a gracious, soft-spoken woman in gray who never lies, never raises her voice, and has decided that Olivia belongs to her.

Olivia reads every gift. Every object remembers. What they tell her sends her from an Oklahoma hospice bed to a lake-shore flat in Geneva, and from a locked door that jams if you try it wrong to a farmhouse on a county road, where an ice storm is coming and an old man who does not ask is coming with it.

A tense, human supernatural thriller about memory, consent, and what it costs to say no with your hands open. Nothing Forgets is the second novel in the Golden Touch series, and stands on its own. Nothing forgets. Almost no one listens. But somebody does.