Remain: A Supernatural Love Story

By Nicholas Sparks

Book Overview

A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection--an unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth Sense

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - COMING SOON AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN AND STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND PHOEBE DYNEVOR

The stunning hardcover of Remain features a premium dust jacket, beautiful endpapers, and a deluxe case stamped with replica images of the authors' signatures These stamped "signatures" are reproduced in gold foil.

When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend's summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvia's deathbed revelation--that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family--sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain. But when he takes up residence at a historic bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, he encounters a beautiful young woman named Wren who will challenge every assumption he has about his logical and controlled world.

Tate and Wren find themselves forging an immediate connection, one that neither has ever experienced before. But Tate gradually discovers that below the surface of Wren's idyllic small-town life, hatred, jealousy, and greed are festering, threatening their fragile relationship just as it begins to blossom. Tate realizes that in order to free Wren from an increasingly desperate fate, he will need to unearth the truth about her past before time runs out . . . a quest that will make him doubt whether we can ever believe the stories we tell about ourselves, and the laws that govern our existence. Love--while transformative--can sometimes be frightening.

A story about the power of transcendent emotion, Remain asks us all: Can love set us free not only from our greatest sorrows, but even from the boundaries of life and death?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DZ5FPM6L
• ISBN13: 9798217154043
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Well done

I enjoyed this collaboration of the minds and writing of Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan. It made for a beautiful heartbreaking romance nicely tinged with the eerie and a bit of horror (some of the aspects of Wren). It is only a light romance but it paired nicely with the healing from grief that Tate Donovan experienced after the death of his sister and the healing Wren needs to go through to figure out her own painful past, making for a lovely tale. Besides the slow romance and healing, there is also a bit of mystery for Tate, for there are suspicious events and people who know the truth of Wren, who is not perfect (which helps make her real) and her complicated history as told by the people in the small town where she lived and her death, which may not have been suicide. From a fairly idyllic beginning in the meeting of the two grieving souls (loved the games and the cooking lessons!), it does ratchet up the action and suspense by the end as all the truths are revealed and justice is served. And despite the feelings between spirit and mortal man, I am happy to say that it doesn't end with either Wren returning to the land of the living, or Tate joining her in the afterlife. Instead there is healing, a possible path opening to help others who are stuck, and looking to the future instead of being stuck. I enjoyed reading this book and it makes me excited to see how it will turn out when it comes out in film format! I am glad I got the chance to visit this small town and see the journey Tate and Wren make as they take the next steps in life (or afterlife).