What if the people you love didn't die-they just forgot you existed?Lauren Mitchell wakes up one morning with a tattoo she doesn't remember getting. Small letters on her wrist spelling "Bug"-her six-year-old daughter's nickname. By evening, Emma no longer recognizes her own mother.This isn't amnesia. This isn't a medical condition. This is something far worse.One by one, the people in Lauren's life forget her completely. Her husband. Her sister. Her best friend. Her mother. Each time someone's memory of her vanishes, a new tattoo appears on Lauren's skin-predicting who will forget her next. She tries to warn them, to make them remember, but by the time she reaches them, it's already too late.The forgetting is systematic. The forgetting is irreversible. And Lauren can see exactly who's next.As her existence is systematically erased from reality, Lauren discovers something that shatters everything she thought she knew: this has happened before. Not to someone else. To her. She finds journals hidden in abandoned buildings, all written in her own handwriting, all chronicling the same nightmare. Each one ends with the same chilling line: "If you're reading this, I'm almost gone."Desperate for answers, Lauren follows the clues her past selves left behind-a trail leading to a condemned building and a room that shouldn't exist. Inside, she discovers the impossible truth: three years ago, she died. Medically, officially, completely. But somehow, she came back. And reality has been trying to correct that mistake ever since.Now Lauren faces an unbearable choice. She can accept "containment"-isolated, acknowledged by no one, alive but utterly alone. Or she can allow herself to be erased entirely, restoring everyone's memories but removing herself from existence as if she never lived at all.But there's something the system didn't account for: Lauren has made this choice before. Over a thousand times. And she's starting to remember why.From Joshua Moses, author of High Beam and Visible, comes a haunting thriller that explores our deepest fear-not death, but being forgotten. The Erasure is a mind-bending descent into isolation, identity, and the horrifying question: if no one remembers you, do you even exist?Perfect for fans of Dark Matter, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and Before I Go to Sleep-this is a story about the people we lose, the memories that define us, and what happens when reality itself decides you're a problem that needs to be solved.You don't disappear. You don't die. You just stop being acknowledged.And that's so much worse.