Blake Gibson’s life is small: odd jobs, hangovers, the passenger seat of a rattling Cadillac with two friends who won’t let him fall. But the past is louder than the present. Visions of a mill pond, forbidden love, and a grand hotel lobby where a woman waits for a ring that changes everything. Names he shouldn’t know—Emma, Browning, Annileise, Gideon—feel as real as the people beside him. When the echoes get loud, Blake must confront whether the women in his mind are ghosts of another time or pieces of himself he’s buried too deep to name. A quiet, devastating novel of love that lingers longer than a lifetime.