The Memory Keeper

The Memory Keeper: Selected as an Editor's Pick by BookLife Reviews (Publishers Weekly)

“Taylor’s gripping haunted house gothic […] pulls readers in from the first pages and doesn’t let go until the end. […] creating an immersive reading experience that honors the pleasures of the genre while plumbing the weight of grief and trauma. The storytelling is assured and often electric, thanks to shivery detail steeping us in both the house and in Mara’s mind […]”

— BookLife Reviews (Publishers Weekly), Editor’s Pick



“Taylor’s eerie novel, which kicks off a thematically linked horror series, practically drips with atmosphere. A white-knuckled, sharply crafted piece of cerebral horror.”

-Kirkus Reviews



A descent into oblivion and the hunger of the forgotten.

The first doorway into the Oblivion Cycle...



Archivist Mara accepts a quiet contract to catalog the crumbling Dumont estate. She expects solitude and routine; instead she finds a house steeped in silence, where the walls listen and the mirrors shift when no one is looking. The longer she stays, the more her own reflection falters. Her memories bend, her thoughts blur, and the line 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. It’s 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's 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?



Each book opens a different doorway into oblivion, revealing how the self can be stolen, rewritten, hollowed out, or willingly surrendered.