To What Remains: A Novel of Love, Loss and Remembrance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798254147954)

Some loves are buried by war. Some are lost to time. And some refuse to stay hidden.

Spanning continents and generations, this story weaves together a World War II love story and a mission to bring the past home.

In 1944, Monique Mourot, a young French woman scarred by war and loss, meets Captain Milton Miller aboard a ship bound for America. A Southern pilot whose quiet kindness and unwavering sense of duty offer her a fragile sense of safety. As letters pass between them and their bond deepens, Monique finds herself falling in love again while harboring a truth she fears could destroy everything. When Milton is deployed to the Pacific, their future hangs in the balance between hope and heartbreak, promises made across oceans, and a fate sealed in the jungles of Papua New Guinea.

More than fifty years later, Dr. Elizabeth "Zibby" Mangrum, a forensic archaeologist with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, leads her first recovery mission to locate the remains of a missing pilot. As she and her team dig through mud, history, and evidence, Zibby confronts the emotions of bringing fallen soldiers home, even when the answers are incomplete. Alongside her is Dean Goodwin, a recovery specialist whose presence challenges Zibby's long-held belief that love and duty cannot coexist.

Told in alternating viewpoints, To What Remains is a beautiful story about love shaped by war, the silence women carried, and the promise that remembrance can heal what history left broken. It asks what it means to belong to a person, to a country, to the truth, and whether love, once buried, can ever truly be lost.

Author: J. C. Markley
ISBN-13: 9798254147954
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2026
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d