If You Remember

A Dark Romance Novel

Some love stories don’t begin with a meeting.
They begin with a wound.

If You Remember is a haunting, deeply emotional dark romance about a man who makes a promise when he has nothing left to give—except his soul.

Zayn is a poet drowning in silence, trauma, and a life that feels already over. Alina is a woman carrying a childhood fire inside her bones, surviving by pretending she’s whole. They don’t collide in the real world. They find each other in fragments—through words, pauses, poetry, and late-night confessions that feel more intimate than touch.

What grows between them is not a conventional romance.
It is not safe.
It is not clean.

It is presence.

As their connection deepens, love becomes devotion, devotion becomes dependence, and care slowly blurs into something dangerous. Zayn makes a promise one carved not in words, but in memory and sacrifice. A promise that will follow him beyond time, beyond sanity, and into the quiet places where love and self-destruction begin to resemble each other.

This novel does not romanticize pain—but it does not look away from it either.

If You Remember explores:

Love that exists without possession

Emotional intimacy that borders on obsession

Depression, suicidal ideation, trauma, and survival

Spiritual longing, faith, doubt, and surrender

The cost of staying alive when someone else becomes your reason

Told through lyrical prose and alternating inner worlds, this story moves like a confession whispered in the dark. It asks uncomfortable questions:
Can love save someone—or does it sometimes give pain a place to live?
Is staying always braver than leaving?
And what does a promise mean when it outlives the man who made it?

This book is not a light romance.
It is not a comfort read.

It is for readers who:

Loved the emotional devastation of Normal People

Felt haunted by the intimacy of Norwegian Wood

Are drawn to dark romance that values depth over shock

Believe some stories are meant to be felt, not recovered from

If You Remember is ultimately about a promise of a man—
and the echo it leaves behind in the lives it touches.

Read it if you’re ready to remember the parts of yourself you learned to silence.