Memento Mori (Kathryn Ann Kingsley) Books in Order

Memento Mori starts with a woman who believes she is losing her mind. Maggie has spent months suffering visions of her own deaths and seeing the same white-haired man at the end of them. Her psychiatrist, Dr. Gideon Raithe, seems to be the one steady person in the middle of that chaos.

Then a Vatican priest breaks into her apartment and tells her the doctor is actually a dangerous necromancer.

That is a very Kathryn Ann Kingsley way to begin a series.

From there, the trilogy opens into a modern dark fantasy full of death magic, monsters, the undead, and a heroine who has to decide very quickly whether the terrifying truth is somehow better than the ordinary life she thought she had. Maggie and Gideon carry the emotional arc, but the books keep the pressure on them from all sides. Their connection is intense, but it sits inside a world where religion, magic, memory, and mortality are constantly colliding.

Gideon is the kind of love interest Kingsley readers will recognize right away. He is not safe, not uncomplicated, and not remotely separated from the danger in the plot. That is part of the appeal. The romance is bound up with the same necromancy and violence that make the world frightening in the first place.

The tone sits somewhere between occult thriller and dark paranormal romance. There is a contemporary setting, but the series has the old-world weight of graveyards, church secrets, and powers that feel much older than the people using them.

If you like your romance shadowed by death, this one understands the assignment.

Start with Kiss of the Necromancer. The trilogy builds cleanly from there, giving Maggie and Gideon room to move from confusion and distrust into a much larger struggle over who controls the dead, and what love is worth when mortality itself starts to slip.