Emma Tupper is a dedicated lawyer with a bright future. Butwhen she takes a month-long leave of absence to go on an African vacation, sheends up facing unexpected consequences. After she falls ill and spends sixmonths trapped in a remote village thanks to a devastating earthquake, Emmareturns home to discover that her friends, boyfriend, and colleagues thought shewas dead and that her life has moved on without her.

As she struggles to recreate her old life, throwing herselfinto solving a big case for a client and trying to reclaim her belovedapartment from the handsome photographer who’s taken over her lease, everyonearound her thinks she should take the opportunity to change. But is she willingto sacrifice the job, relationships and everything else she worked so hard tobuild?

In FORGOTTEN, Catherine McKenzie tweaks a classic tale of discovering who we really are when everything that brings meaning to our lives is lost.