Croatoan

By Rowan Taylor

The sea takes what it wants, and it always collects its due.

The second doorway into The Oblivion Cycle...

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. It's the second 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G4FRBVRK
• ISBN13: 9798993350745
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Latchkey Publishing
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"