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The Forgotten Name: In Every Forgotten Memory, Someone is Waiting.
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 24 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Do you remember the red bicycle?
The letter has no stamp and no signature-just one question that shouldn't mean anything. But Lucas Ward feels it like a switch flipped in a wall he's spent years painting over.
Lucas has come home to a rain-worn seaside town carrying a name that was never really his. As a boy, after an accident by the old mill, a room with fluorescent lights and a form he was too young to understand filed him under a new surname-and quietly taught him to forget. Now the past won't stay buried. A red bell rings once and stops. A drawer holds letters that shouldn't exist. And someone, somewhere, has been waiting a very long time for him to remember.
With Rachel, whose steadiness keeps him tethered, and Diya, the childhood friend who remembers everything he can't, Lucas begins pulling threads no one meant him to find: a dented bell, a name struck through in ink, a recording of a child's voice that was never supposed to be heard again. The people who filed him away still prefer tidy endings. But the deeper he digs, the sharper the real question grows-not only what was done to him, but what he agreed to, and why.
Because remembering could give him back everything he lost. Or cost him the quiet life he's finally built.
Atmospheric, intimate, and quietly devastating, The Forgotten Name is a psychological thriller with a literary heart-a mystery about identity, memory, and the ordinary courage it takes to reclaim your own name. For readers of Tana French's slow-burn menace, the precision of Claire Keegan, and the hushed suspense of Sarah Waters.
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