The Memory Collectors
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One of Goodreads Most Anticipated Books of 2025!
Four strangers time travel to the past and find themselves stuck on the day all their lives were changed in this stunning speculative mystery, perfect for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Wrong Place Wrong Time and The Paradox Hotel.
What would you do if you could spend an hour in your past? Four strangers in the beach town of Ventura, California are about to find out.
Praise for The Memory Collectors
—Al Roker, NBC News Today Show
—Barbara O’Neal, USA Today bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids
“Dete Meserve’s The Memory Collectors is my favorite type of a book—a brilliant premise straight out of The Twilight Zone combined with incredible heart and believable, relatable characters you can’t help but love. I couldn’t put it down!”
—Meg Shaffer, national bestselling author of The Lost Story
About Dete
Dete Meserve is a best-selling novelist and an award-winning creator and producer of films and television series. She wrote the screenplay adaptation of her debut novel, Good Sam, and produced it as a feature film for Netflix.
Inspired by a question posed to readers—”What would you do if you could spend an hour in your past?”—her fifth novel, The Memory Collectors, explores the universal desire to revisit pivotal moments in our lives, whether to reconnect with a loved one, undo a painful mistake, or relive a joyous memory. In this suspenseful and emotional journey, four strangers step back into their pasts only to find themselves trapped in time. A shocking twist forces them to unravel hidden connections between them—uncovering secrets that change everything.
