The Echo Wife

When Daniel returns from a short business trip, he expects to find his wife, Claire, waiting for him at their apartment. But she's gone. Vanished without a trace. Neighbors claim she never existed. Their wedding photos are missing. Her belongings are missing. Even digital records show no sign of her. And worse? Everyone insists Daniel never married. As he spirals deeper into confusion and despair, Daniel clings to the remnants of a life that only he now remembers. His search leads him to mysterious drawings, diaries buried in an old mental hospital, and a past that doesn't quite fit the life he thought he led. The truth he discovers is more devastating than madness: Claire was not his wife—not legally, not even truthfully. She was a mentally ill woman named Clara, who assumed a false identity after the tragic loss of their unborn child, and Daniel, devastated by grief, manipulated her... perhaps even unknowingly. Torn between illusion and reality, Daniel must come to terms with a love that was deeply real and built on lies. Because some people don't disappear; they just fade from the world's memory—and only those who truly loved them can bring them back. "The Echo Wife" is a haunting psychological novel about grief, identity, and the lengths the human heart will go to rewrite the unbearable. A moving exploration of forgotten love and fragile memory, it asks: What if the person you loved more than anything... never really existed?