Everybody asks what they would do if they lost their mind. Perhaps the better question is: what would you do to keep your mind? 

With the advent of Alzheimer’s rising each year, some scientists speculate that cases of the disease could triple in the coming years. 

What if there was a reason for this? An explanation other than a natural one…

In Moments, memory is the prized currency. In this world, one’s mental health is measured by how many memories one has access to. 

The poor save their life savings to swallow a pill which allows them to relive a cherished memory - the birth of a child, a wedding ceremony, a first kiss… 

The wealthy have neuro-chips implanted into their brains, granting them constant access to their complete collection of memories. 

Our dynamic heroine, Ember Blaine, a common girl from one of the remote provinces with a deathly knack for deception and getting herself into deep trouble, is recruited by a black-market group who hacks “moments” by scalping society’s elite and selling their neuro-chip implants to the highest bidder. 

Ember enters another memory on a routine “moment”, but this one is different. 

Instead of taking out her target, Ember falls in love with him. 

Instead of returning home, she encounters a world she never knew existed and never expected to find. Making formidable friends and lethal enemies, Ember finds herself flung on a rollercoaster quest to lead her people to freedom against a society bent on keeping them trapped in prisons of their own minds.