Some spend a lifetime looking for love, and others wait a lifetime to be reunited with someone once so deeply loved. To Echo and Remain is a contemporary romance with a historical backstory about a lover's promise and a lasting bond that even death cannot put asunder. Set primarily in an old inn in the mountains of North Carolina, To Echo and Remain explores the power of love, forgiveness, and second chances. These valuable lessons are learned as the long-held secrets of Ruth Fischer, the elderly innkeeper, finally come to light. To Echo and Remain is a southern tale set in an old inn in the Appalachian foothills of western North Carolina. It unfolds against a backstory of the grandmother's role in founding the Joyce Kilmer National Forest and a few secrets she had kept that, when finally told, changed Owen and Nicole's lives forever.