About What Remains
A disgraced headmaster. A fragile marriage. An old magic that never truly died.
Some pasts refuse to stay buried.
After a humiliating scandal destroys his career, Paul retreats into a life of ritual, superstition and quiet desperation. His wife keeps him at arm’s length. His daughter tries to forgive him. And the small coastal town where he grew up watches him with suspicion and thinly veiled disgust.
But the past has other plans.
When an old friend begs Paul to help find a missing girl, he reluctantly returns to the occult practices he abandoned decades ago—practices taught to him by two strange sisters who once opened his senses to the “Beyond World”. Their teachings brought him power. They also brought him danger.
What begins as a simple ritual spirals into something far darker.
Visions flare. Old debts stir. Long-buried secrets rise through the cracks.
And as flames spread through the landscape of Paul’s memories, someone—or something—seems determined to drag him back into a destiny he thought he had escaped.
Haunting, intimate and quietly brutal, What Remains is a novel about guilt, friendship, desire, and the thin line between magic and madness.
Perfect for readers of Andrew Michael Hurley, Sarah Waters, John Burnside and Tana French.
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