Soft Light, Sharp Teeth
ROWAN TAYLOR BOOKS
Welcome to the quiet horror of Rowan Taylor — where memories linger, love unravels, and the line between presence and absence is never quite clear. These are stories that don’t scream — they whisper, weep, and wait in the silence.Here, hauntings are intimate. Familiar faces become unfamiliar. Rooms remember. And some doors never close.Rowan Taylor writes unsettling fiction that blends psychological dread with the supernatural, exploring what it means to forget—and to be forgotten. She is also known as Tracy Fobes, author of eight award-winning paranormal romances published by Simon & Schuster and Leisure LoveSpell. Fobes has also independently published numerous romantic suspense stories, including Hard Charger and Billionaire’s Hidden Heart.As Fobes, she wrote of witches, grimalkins, haunted seas, and dangerous love. As Rowan, she steps fully into the dark.She lives near Philadelphia, owns too many books and too few flashlights, and believes the scariest monsters are the ones who know your name.
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True death comes with forgetting
The Memory Keeper
A descent into oblivion and the hunger of the forgotten.Mara is slipping away. Her memories fracture, her reflection falters, and her own voice has gone silent. When she accepts a contract to catalog the crumbling Dumont estate, she expects solitude — but instead finds herself inside one of the most unsettling haunted houses imaginable. The rooms hold jars filled with tongues, mirrors that don’t match, and whispers of those who came before. Isabelle never escaped. Alec was consumed. And now Mara feels herself unraveling, one memory at a time.What stalks the Dumont house isn’t just a ghost. It’s a predator practiced in control — a force that twists memory, erases identity, and demands silence. In its grip, Mara begins to fear she’s living inside one of those uncanny ghosts stories, an Alzheimer’s horror novel written in real time, where dementia and haunting bleed together and free will slips away. This is horror about mind control, and the house wants her obedience as much as it wants her body.The Memory Keeper is the first novel in Rowan Taylor’s chilling new trilogy — a blend of gothic horror, haunted house dread, and psychological terror. Perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson, Paul Tremblay, and Mariana Enríquez, this story is polished, atmospheric, and unforgettable — the kind of tale that creeps into your mind and refuses to leave.
A voyage into madness and the unknown
CROATOAN
The sea takes what it wants, and it always collects its due.Kit Cabot stows away on the clipper Apollyon for one reason: to save his uncle, Captain John Cabot. Ever since John carried a strange red pearl out of a sea cave, something in him isn’t right—his eyes gleam with a red-black swirl, his words hit like a physical blow, and the name he murmurs, Croatoan, makes hardened sailors go quiet.As the crew whispers mutiny and the lash sings on deck, Kit and his few allies hunt the pearl’s origins, only to learn it isn’t a jewel at all but a window—an invitation—and something on the other side has noticed them. Storms close in; the coast grows treacherous; and John’s humanity thins to a terrible calm.To save his uncle—maybe even his soul—Kit must decide how far he’ll go, and what he’ll become, in a battle where obedience means doom and defiance is the only prayer left.Croatoan is a fast-paced nautical horror about loyalty, corruption, and the price of holding onto someone who’s already slipping away. In a sea of forgettable tales, this one pulls you under — and doesn’t let you surface.
Some friendships refuse to stay buried
DEAD FRIENDS FOREVER
A tale of ghosts, betrayal, and the bayou's unforgiving dead.Lily swore she’d never return—not after Amelia vanished, and the angel statue was set in the garden to mourn what could never be recovered. But when her brother’s body is pulled from the swamp, the past drags her back.The house waits for her, sagging beneath silence, steeped in damp earth and secrets. Aunt Clara still tucks away letters and photographs in drawers, as if hiding the past will keep it from finding them.It begins with small intrusions: a locket engraved MINE turning up where it doesn’t belong, Polaroids whose flash reveals more than darkness, and the sight of Amelia—smiling as she once did, though the girl before Lily is not the cousin she lost.Every night the angel moves. One day it stands in the garden, the next in the cemetery, then ankle-deep in the swamp. Lily cannot tell if it is coming for her, or if she is already caught inside its gaze.In the bayou, the dead do not rest. They wait for you to remember them—and to finish what you began.Dead Friends Forever is a slow-burn Southern Gothic horror about memory and guilt, the corrosive pull of the past, and the dangerous comfort of letting the dead back in.
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Rowan's Haunted News
The nights are getting longer, the air a little sharper, and the shadows seem to lean closer. It feels like the perfect season to share what I’ve been working on — new tales of ghosts, ancient hungers, and the kind of hauntings that refuse to let go.
Hi friends,
It’s a big month in my haunted corner of the world!📖 My gothic horror novel The Memory Keeper is already out on Kindle Unlimited — a chilling tale of identity, hauntings and the voices we try to forget.⚓ And this Friday, September 19, my second release on Kindle Unlimited Croatoan sets sail: a fast-paced, nautical horror about family, betrayal, and an ancient hunger at sea.Please scroll up to find links to ARCs for both books.Dead Friends Forever, the third book in The Oblivion Triology, is due out mid-October 2025!Thank you for stopping by and for being part of this journey with me — your support makes it possible to bring these haunted stories to life!
Rowan Taylor--
Haunted Tales for Haunted Nights
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