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The Keeper of Forgotten Lives
Paperback
FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Barrel Coops
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 358
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A richly atmospheric historical gothic novel about memory, choice, and history forgotten, The Keeper of Forgotten Lives is a story of quiet courage, difficult decisions, guilt, and the true cost of the life she chose.
She has lived for five centuries. She has watched kingdoms rise and fall, languages disappear, and cities rebuild themselves upon the ruins of those that came before. She asks for nothing except the freedom to preserve the forgotten stories of ordinary people, believing that memory is sometimes the greatest gift of all.
When a chance discovery leads her to a hidden Roman study beneath the streets of London, she believes she has found the greatest historical treasure of her long life.
Then she meets Edmund Ashcombe.
Only thirteen, destined for a future already chosen by his family and the Church, Edmund possesses the same patient curiosity that has guided Eleanor for five hundred years. As their shared search uncovers the remarkable legacy of a forgotten Roman scholar, an unlikely friendship begins to grow.
Yet Eleanor carries a secret older than memory itself.
Before she can entrust Edmund with that secret, she must answer one impossible question.
Is the greatest gift she was ever given one that should be passed on... or protected forever?
This book doesn't announce itself. It invites the reader in.
History remembers kings. She remembers everyone else.
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