Alli smiles rather dryly. "Well, I would like it to be a memory aid potion. So far, no luck. Negative luck? Whatever winds up with me missing half the damn plot of the last book I read." She winks. "Planned ahead on that, though. I can live with forgetting how Countess Mountvale helps her family- um- her husband? Sister? Whatever, there's a jewelry heist."

Or possibly a painting heist. She thinks.

"You see what I mean, though?"