As we welcome the Rowe family to our beautiful clifftop hotel, a shadow passes over my husband’s face. In that moment I see it: my husband is hiding a terrible secret. Has he put us all in danger?
Mark and I pride ourselves on giving visitors to our hotel, high on the rugged Maine cliffs with views of the ocean, a vacation they won’t forget. But the Rowes arestrangely over-familiar when they arrive with their teenage daughter. The wife puts a hand on Mark’s forearm and her husband meets my eyes with a knowing look as I hold my little son tight. They gush that they loved their previous stay here… But I’m certain I’ve never seen them before.
Mark reassures me that the Rowes are just being friendly. We have so many visitors, maybe we forgot meeting them. When I am locked in the master bedroom for over an hour, he later soothes my panic and says it was just an accident. But I know one of the Rowes was out in the hallway listening to me cry for help. I hear one of them whispering a lullaby to my baby on his monitor. I cannot trust these people.
But as the relentless icy rain gives way to the biggest blizzard of the season and we become cut off, I realize my son and I are trapped. Mark knows more about the Rowes than he’s letting on. I’ll do anything to protect my gorgeous baby boy. But how far will I have to go, to keep him safe?
The Hotel is a totally twisty locked room thriller that you won’t be able to put down. Fans of Shalini Boland, Freida McFadden and Jeneva Rose will be glued to the pages!
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Emily Shiner always dreamed of becoming an author. After spending years devouring stacks of thrillers, she decided to try her hand at writing them herself. Now she gets to live out her dream of writing novels and sharing her stories with people around the world. She lives in the Appalachian Mountains and loves hiking with her husband, daughter, and their two dogs.
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My thoughts: everyone in this book, except the toddler, has an agenda, you can’t trust any of them to be telling the truth. As two families with a lot of secrets get snowed in at a remote Maine B&B, things get ugly and deadly.
The Rowes book out the whole house, so there’s no other guests, nowhere to go and no way to avoid the confrontations that are coming. Cosy dinners can’t mask the tension, and once the power goes out, the danger increases.
The Rowes have something on Mark, who thinks his wife doesn’t know, but she does, and she has plans of her own, that don’t include her husband. But who is playing who? This tense cat and mouse game kept me gripped and then the twists as the book ends, shocking. You can’t run far enough.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.
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