Landscape designer and EPA investigator Madewell Hatterson wakes inside the locked Treadwell Institute, an abbey-turned “wellness” retreat, missing the last three months of his life. Bloodwork shows he’s been dosed with Forget Me Not, a government-approved drug that erases a targeted span of time. The staff insist he checked himself in willingly—the paperwork agrees—but the security footage doesn’t: the hooded driver who delivered him has been digitally erased from every camera angle.

The Institute’s director, Dr. Finneas Brewer, offers an experimental path forward: memory-reconstruction sessions that might restore Madewell’s missing time before the drug seals it permanently. Madewell agrees—then realizes someone has already tampered with the Institute’s files. He plays compliant in therapy while quietly trying to identify the erased driver and why Treadwell’s records were altered.

As Madewell’s memories return in violent, disjointed fragments, they point to the murder of Underland’s magistrate, Earnest White—and to an environmental scandal tied to fracking sites and poisoned land. One recovered scene puts Harry Marchforth Jr.—the man Madewell may have been dating before the wipe—beside him at a pad where the ground ruptures and something alive moves beneath it.

Outside the Institute, Maryanne Treadwell—publicly linked to Earnest White’s inner circle—starts digging into what else has been buried around him, including the suspicious death of Underland’s regent Queen Em. The moment Maryanne takes evidence she wasn’t meant to see, her search points back to the Treadwell Institute—and makes her a problem someone intends to solve.

Told in alternating viewpoints between Madewell and Maryanne, the novel uses memory-recovery sessions and media “artifacts” (journal entries, interviews, tabloids, and pharma ads) to reveal what Underland has been erasing.