What if the most important mind on the team vanished—and no one remembered he was ever there? When Mason Ward is erased from reality, the Circle loses its strategist, its records, and the memory of ever needing him. Only Hope’s living charcoal drawings reveal the impossible truth. Beneath Prague, a hidden archive is rewriting identity, memory, and time. To save Mason, the Circle must reconstruct a man the world forgot—before remembering him collapses the reality that survived without him.