Clara Thompson, a 32-year-old art restorer in a sleepy coastal town, has spent most of her life haunted by the death of her younger brother, Ethan. Everyone said it was an accident, but Clara has always felt the truth was far more complicated—locked away in the silence of her family and the fragments of her memories.When a letter from a distant relative reveals long-buried secrets about the night Ethan died, Clara begins a painful journey to uncover the truth. As she digs deeper, Clara unearths a web of betrayal, childhood trauma, and generational silence. The closer she gets to the truth, the more it threatens to unravel not only her fragile grip on reality but also the relationships she still clings to.Along the way, she meets Daniel, a local journalist also grieving a personal loss. Together, they begin to piece together the broken parts of each other's lives. But some wounds run too deep, and healing doesn't always come with answers.Echoes of the Past is a haunting literary novel about memory, grief, and the impossibility of undoing the past. With poetic prose and raw emotional weight, it explores how love and pain can coexist—and how some ghosts never truly leave.Ending Note: The story ends on a melancholic note—Clara finds the truth, but not the peace she hoped for. Some relationships remain fractured. Ethan’s memory becomes her eternal companion, not her closure.