THE MEMORY BETWEEN USAiri Akiyama remembers almost everything about her childhood.At least, that's what she believes.When eighteen-year-old Airi moves with her family from Yokohama to the quiet coastal town of Kaifu, she expects nothing more than a fresh start and an ordinary final year of high school.Then she meets Haruto Shinagawa.The moment he sees her, he knows exactly who she is.Airi doesn't.Haruto remembers the summer they spent together six years ago. The laughter. The seaside afternoons. The small promises they made as children. Most of all, he remembers how close they were before Airi suddenly disappeared from his life without saying goodbye.But Airi has no memory of any of it.To her, those six years aren't filled with memories. They're a blank space she has never been able to explain.As Haruto struggles to understand why the girl he once knew doesn't remember him, Airi begins noticing strange clues about the past: old photographs hidden away in her mother's closet, her mother's uncomfortable silence whenever Kaifu is mentioned, and fragments of memories that seem to surface whenever she is near Haruto.The closer they become, the more questions appear.What really happened during that summer?Why did Airi's family leave Kaifu?Why did Haruto believe she abandoned him?And why does everyone seem to know something about Airi's past that she doesn't?As Airi and Haruto slowly rebuild the connection they once had, friendship begins to grow into something deeper. But falling for someone who remembers a version of you that you can't remember being comes with its own kind of fear.Because sometimes the hardest thing isn't remembering the past.It's discovering why you were made to forget it.THE MEMORY BETWEEN US is a slow-burn Young Adult romance about forgotten memories, childhood friendship, family secrets, first love, healing, and two people trying to find their way back to each other.