The Echo Room

The abandoned laboratory should have been silent. Instead, behind a sealed door, something whispers investigative journalist Elara Quinn’s name—and speaks in the voice of the brother she was told died when they were children. The voice remembers the night he vanished. It remembers the promise she made to him. And it remembers parts of Elara’s childhood that no longer exist inside her own mind. Each visit to the Echo Room restores another fragment of the truth, but every answer leaves something missing: a familiar face without a name, a beloved voice without a memory, a piece of herself replaced by the terrible certainty that it may never have belonged to her at all. Soon the presence in the walls follows her home, repeats thoughts she has not spoken, and uses the voices of the people she trusts to tell her what is real. To save her brother, Elara must descend into the memory that destroyed her family and confront the possibility that the woman who escaped the room years ago was never the same woman who entered it. The Echo Room does not want her body. It wants her to doubt herself so completely that, when it finally speaks with her voice, she will be the only person left who believes the imitation is real.