The Keeper of Forgotten Things

Deep in a forest where no path leads, there is a house that shouldn't stand.

Inside, a woman tends stories, not her own, but the forgotten ones. Tales of women who won when they were supposed to lose. Women who refused when they were supposed to submit. Women who survived when the world wanted them erased. She keeps their words on the walls, their voices in jars, their memories alive when no one else will.

She calls herself the Keeper. She doesn't remember what she was before.

Then a girl stumbles out of the dark, bruised, silent, unfinished. She has walked away from a story that was killing her, and she has nowhere else to go. The Keeper takes her in. Tells her the stories. Shows her what it looks like when women win.

But something is wrong. The stories are dying, fading from their jars, disappearing from the walls. And with each one that vanishes, the Keeper feels herself unraveling. To save the stories, she will have to open a door she locked long ago. She will have to remember what she did. What she was.

She will have to become whole, even if whole means becoming the monster she tried to bury.

The Keeper of Forgotten Things is a dark fairy tale about the stories we keep, the selves we hide, and the women who refuse to be forgotten. A companion novel in The Keepers of Forgotten Stories universe. For readers of Naomi Novik, Erin Morgenstern, and Angela Carter.