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| Author | Meg Cabot |
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| Language | English |
| Series | The Mediator |
| Genre | Romance, Supernatural |
| Publisher | William Morrow and Company |
Publication date | February 2016 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 978-0062379023 |
| Preceded by | Twilight |
Remembrance is a novel written by author Meg Cabot and was published by William Morrow and Company in 2016. It is an adult sequel to her popular Mediator series.
Eight years after the events of Twilight , Suze Simon is studying for a master's degree in counselling and interning at the Mission Academy office. She is now engaged to Jesse, who is finishing his medical residency, but he insists on waiting for marriage, much to her frustration. Paul Slater, who has fallen out with Suze following an incident at their high school graduation party, informs her that his company intends to demolish her family's old house in Carmel. He suggests that tearing down the house might unleash a curse on Jesse from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, as it is his resting place, and offers to save the house if Suze sleeps with him.
When Suze carelessly tends to a self-harming student named Becca Walters, she is confronted by Lucia, an angry young ghost claiming to protect Becca, who unleashes an earthquake in the Academy office. After Lucia tries to drown Suze, Jesse orders her and Gina to move to Jake's house for their safety. Concerned that the Egyptian curse may be real, Suze agrees to a date with Paul.
The next morning, Father Dominic informs Suze that Lucia was a classmate of Becca's who died in a horseback riding accident several years ago. Father D attempts to approach the Walters family, but is seriously injured by Lucia. At the hospital, Suze and Jesse discover that her triplet step-nieces are mediators, and that Lucia has been playing with them. Lucia then strangely leads Suze to discover that Paul is the triplets' biological father.
At school the next day, Suze interrogates Becca, who admits that Lucia was murdered by Jimmy Delgado, a handyman at their previous school who had molested her; she also reports narrowly avoiding abuse by Father Francisco, the school principal. Suze and Jesse track down Jimmy, and she confronts him with Paul while on their date. Jimmy shoots himself to avoid arrest, but Suze finds his child abuse files and client list, which includes Father Francisco.
At dinner, Suze and Paul are intercepted by Jesse, who walks out when Paul reveals their deal. With her knowledge of the triplets' true parentage, Suze blackmails Paul into giving her the house. Outside, she finds Jesse, who is hurt at all the secrets Suze has kept from him, but forgives her. As they are about to make up, Paul comes out to mock them. Jesse punches him and is arrested for assault.
That night, Lucia thanks Suze and moves on to her afterlife. Suze gives Delgado's files to CeeCee and visits a greatly-improved Becca the next day; upon leaving the Walters' mansion, she finds Jesse with the keys to the house. They drive there and make love for the first time in Suze's old bedroom, after which Jesse reveals he has received a grant allowing him to start his own medical practice. With Father D's help, Suze and Jesse get married the next weekend and host a wedding reception at the house, surrounded by their friends and family.
Kirkus Reviews called Remembrance "a fun and satisfying grown-up update on Suze’s life", highlighting how Suze handles family drama, professional woes, and supernatural conundrums "with heavy doses of attitude, ass-kicking, and profanity". [1]
