Remain

Tate Donovan, an architect from New York, travels to Cape Cod to design a summer home for his best friend. He hopes the job gives him a fresh start. He has just left an upscale psychiatric facility, where he was treated for acute depression, and he is still grieving his sister.

Before she died, Sylvia told Tate that she could see spirits still tied to the living world, and that the gift runs in their family. Tate, who trusts reason over belief, cannot settle with what she said.

He takes a room at a historic bed-and-breakfast on the Cape and meets Wren, a young woman who unsettles his ordered, logical outlook. The two form an immediate bond unlike anything either has known. The novel blends romance with the supernatural, and it was written jointly by two authors.

Beneath the calm of Wren's small town, though, hatred, jealousy and greed are building, and they threaten the relationship just as it takes hold. Tate comes to believe Wren faces a desperate fate. To free her, he must uncover the truth of her past before time runs out, and the search leaves him doubting the stories people tell about themselves.