the LISTENING: Forget Trilogy Book 2: A Dystopian YA Sci-Fi Thriller of Memory, Sacrifice, and Ancient Secret Beneath Ice

THE WORLD GOT QUIET. SOMETHING FINALLY ANSWERED.One year after the Empathy Bloom saved the last 2% of humanity, Mara Vance thought the hard part was over.She was wrong.A hum from Antarctica-ancient, lonely, impossible-calls to every symbiotic child on Earth. Under two miles of ice, a library has been waiting since before the first forests. It holds the memories of four worlds that ended, and the one that almost did. And it's dying.Twelve academies vote on whether to answer. Six yes. Six no. Tie means stay home-until a lonely thirteen-year-old tips the vote, and the kids who saved the world sail south to knock on the oldest door on the planet.To save the archive, someone must become a bridge-a living connection between two networks, holding the door open at the bottom of the world. Forever. But the cost is steep: Leo is forgetting how to love. Jin is willing to burn his own empathy to save hers. And the ancient thing beneath the ice doesn't make you forget words.It makes you forget how to feel.THE LISTENING is the heart-stopping second book in The Forget Trilogy-hopeful, found-family sci-fi about the kids the old world called too sensitive, and the radical idea that empathy is a technology.THE FORGET TRILOGY Book 1: THE EMPATHY BLOOM Book 2: THE LISTENING Book 3: THE REMEMBERINGWe were the virus, but we can be the medicine too.