In the fog-veiled town of Wister Hollow, memory is not linear—and forgetting is a ritual.

When Iris Bellamy inherits her grandmother's crumbling home, she finds more than family heirlooms in the attic. There's a boy in the woods who should not exist, a spiral in the earth that shifts when walked, and a lantern that remembers names long erased from history.

As she descends into a recursion of failed rituals and ghosted selves, Iris begins to question who she is—or who she was supposed to be.

To stop the loop, she must unravel her family's final vow.

But in a town that remembers selectively, carrying someone else's memory might cost her her own.

What Remains of the Lantern is a haunting literary fantasy about memory, identity, and the terrifying beauty of being known.