She Faked Forgetting Me

Noah Reed, 31, is a senior designer kept at that title on purpose. He left a design director position in another city for Sloane Barrett, 30, only daughter of a family that takes what it wants in a pleasant voice, and now he has a tumor in his head that has been growing for three years. Today, in a hospital corridor, she looked straight at him, called him a pervert, and asked him to stop following her. It was not real. Sloane has never lost anything in her life and has decided to stage a loss: a fake forgetting, a new boyfriend installed for the duration of the test, a family closing ranks. Noah has decided to stop being tested and is scheduling the operation that may erase her from his memory anyway. Neither of them has told the other the truth. Over six days, with his assistant, a neurosurgeon who says the same sentence three different ways, a studio owner who owes him nothing, and a folder of invoices for every object he ever bought, the story works out which of them was playing the other, and what a seven-year relationship is worth when both parties are willing to use memory as a weapon.