Tom Auden tries to remember what he saw in the village shrine, just before his world exploded in Vietnam in 1972. The memory is so horrific and unspeakable that Auden buries it, deeper than nightmares can ever reach. He forgets the gruesome scene - and loses six hours of his life. In 1987, those missing hours become vitally important. The horrors of Vietnam are being recreated outside his window; the terrible ceremony he interrupted fifteen years earlier moves towards its inevitable conclusion. Unless he can remember the secret of the Harvest Bride...Cover art by Jill Bauman.