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The Fifth Room
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $43.99
ISBN13: 9781663276629
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: Oct 23 2025
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Fifth Room is a secret sanctuary hidden behind the velvet rot of A Toronto speakeasy. Its front is for men - smoke, whiskey, illusions of power. But in the sacred back room, women enter carrying ruin: betrayals, secrets, shame they have buried for years. Inside, they are unmade and remade. Masks fracture. Wounds are stripped bare. And in candlelight and shadow, transformation takes hold.
Charlotte has lived unseen for decades - ex-wife, mother, daughter, always too much or not enough. Ashby Vale, heir to a legacy built by his mother, June, chooses her as one of the women worthy of the room. To Ashby, The Fifth Room is sacred, created to honor a woman the world ignored. To Charlotte, it is the first place where she is truly seen.
But the sanctuary exists in a city of predators. Lennox Harper, rock star and sadist, thrives on breaking women for sport. Professor Sage, obsessed with Lennox and his cruelty, lures Charlotte's niece Ivy into a spiral of manipulation. Their darkness collides with the women's search for rebirth, pushing them toward a trial that will expose every
lie, every cruelty, every mask.
Gothic, cinematic, and psychologically charged. The Fifth Room is a story of ruin and resurrection, where trauma becomes transformation and survival is written in shadow.
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