The Oblivion Cycle

The Memory Keeper, selected as an Editor's Pick by BookLife Reviews (Publishers Weekly), has been praised as “a gripping haunted house gothic that creates an immersive reading experience, honoring the pleasures of the genre while plumbing the weight of grief and trauma… assured and often electric, thanks to shivery detail,” and hailed by IndieReader as “quietly unsettling and deeply human—horror that creeps under your skin rather than lunges for your throat.”

This is a descent into oblivion and the hunger of the forgotten. Archivist Mara accepts a quiet contract to catalog the crumbling Dumont estate, expecting solitude and routine; instead she finds a house steeped in silence, where the walls listen and mirrors shift when no one is looking. The longer she stays, the more her reflection falters, her memories bend, and the boundary between herself and the presence within the house begins to dissolve.

Somewhere in its history, a woman named Isabelle Dumont was erased—and Mara senses that same fate closing in. What haunts the estate isn’t a ghost, but a patient predator, practiced in the art of rewriting lives, and it has set its sights on her.

The Memory Keeper is a gothic psychological horror about coercion, haunting, and the violence of being forgotten. It is the first novel in Rowan Taylor’s chilling new series, The Oblivion Cycle—standalone horror novels united not by character or plot, but by a single devouring idea: what if identity is not a fixed truth, but prey, and each book opens a different doorway into oblivion, revealing how the self can be stolen, rewritten, hollowed out, or willingly surrendered.