It's the last Saturday of September, 2022, and Luna finds herself at an estate sale on the edge of Pender, a town that barely registers on a map. The house is a faded yellow Victorian on a dead-end street, and in a back bedroom, tucked beneath a pile of moth-eaten linens, she finds a wooden-handled knife. The blade is dull, the handle worn smooth, but the price tag says one hundred dollars. The woman running the sale—Ada, the deceased's niece—tells her the knife was never used for cooking. It belonged to her uncle, who bought it at another estate sale twenty years ago, who bought it from a woman who claimed it came from a farmhouse where a family vanished in 1895. Luna buys it, because she makes a habit of buying things that feel wrong. That night, in her motel room, she learns that the knife does not cut objects. It cuts something else. She wakes on the floor with the knife in her hand and a memory that isn't hers—a man running through corn, the stalks slicing his arms, a dark house ahead. She wraps it in a towel and puts it in the trunk. She tells herself she will sell it at the next estate sale. But she doesn't. She keeps it. And sometimes, late at night, she takes it out and holds it, because the memory—even the terror of it—is better than the silence.