When Eliza Spalding Warren's impulsive husband wants to start over in the territory where Eliza was taken hostage by Cayuse Indians years before, she responds by delving into her mother's diary to learn from how she dealt with struggle.

"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton,'a tech demi-god on a first name basis with the world.' Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalizing memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own Your Unconscious"--which allows you access to every memory you've...

Experiencing recurring nightmares of an accident she cannot remember, Diana bonds with newcomer Cole before her unraveling memories force her to make an unthinkable choice.

One day Tom Krupp returns home to find his wife, Karen, has vanished. Her car's gone; her purse, phone and ID left behind. The police arrive, and take Tom to a hospital where Karen has been admitted: she lost control as she sped through the worst part of town. Karen has a concussion and a few scrapes-- and she can't remember what she was doing or where she was when she crashed. When she returns home something is not quite right. It seems there's a...

Proposing to his girlfriend Jen and accompanying her to Kendrick Falls in spite of rumors that no man has ever gone to the falls with Jen and come back the same, Richard suffers a car accident on the journey only to discover that Jen has disappeared.

Moving away from the West Coast when someone records and uploads his bonfire of personal objects after a devastating loss, Gavin starts over in New Jersey and struggles to forget painful memories at the side of a friend's 10-year-old daughter, a girl with an eidetic memory.

Implicated in the murder of her best friend, Jennifer White, a brilliant retired surgeon with dementia, struggles with fractured memories of their complex relationship and wonders if she actually committed the crime.

A small boy tries to discover the meaning of "memory" so he can restore that of an elderly friend.

"Chloe didn't think about it much when she nodded off in study hall on that sleepy summer day. But when she wakes up, snow is on the ground and she can't remember the last six months of her life. Before, she'd been a mediocre student. Now, she's on track for valedictorian and being recruited by Ivy League schools. Before, she never had a chance with super jock Blake. Now he's her boyfriend. Before, she and Maggie were inseparable. Now her best friend...

"The key to her missing memories could bring relief--or unlock her worst nightmares. On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives soaked to the bone at her Manhattan office, only to find that she's forgotten her keycard. When her boss shows, he's shocked to see her--because he explains, she hasn't worked there in five years. Ally knows her name but is having trouble coming up with much beyond that, though after a trip to the psychiatric...