<p>In the fog-veiled town of Wister Hollow memory is not linear-and forgetting is a ritual.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>To stop the loop she must unravel her family's final vow.</p><p>But in a town that remembers <strong>selectively</strong> carrying someone else's memory might cost her her own.</p><p><em>What Remains of the Lantern</em> is a haunting literary fantasy about memory identity and the terrifying beauty of being known.</p>