"When Marina stumbled out of the Dark, she had no memory of how she survived the parasitic Fade who had demolished the world. No memory of where she came from or who her family was. Now she knows: she's one of the Fade, and she shouldn't even be human"--

Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic. But there's nothing exotic about it to Clara. She loves eating ripe mangos off the ground, running outside in the rain with her Papa during rainy season, and going to her secret hideout with Gaynah--even though lately she's not acting like a best friend. The only thing out of the ordinary for Clara is that something happened to her memory that made her forget everything that happened...