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The Gilded Lie: A Luxury Hotel Thriller of False Accusation, Guest Surveillance, and a Cover-Up That Rewrites the Night
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ISBN13: 9798258007582
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 19 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 19 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A five-star hotel can survive scandal. It cannot survive the truth. By dawn, guest relations director Mara Vale is supposed to bury the St. Clair's worst night: a missing VIP, hidden camera footage, and a young woman who disappears from a sealed luxury floor. Instead she discovers the hotel's real crisis plan is not damage control but narrative control, a polished internal machine built to rewrite timelines, erase liability, and pin the collapse on the one employee who cannot afford to fight back.
Mara is underpaid, financially trapped, and already marked as reactive by an old complaint the brand kept on file for exactly this moment. With only night-audit lead Nina Park willing to help, she follows clipped footage, altered room logs, and hidden access routes through service corridors, incident rooms, and executive archives where reputation is weaponized and every answer makes the next move more dangerous. If she fails, she loses her name, her future, and the only chance to expose what happened before the hotel seals the story for good. For readers who want luxury-hotel paranoia, wrongful-accusation pressure, and a female-forward psychological thriller that keeps tightening until the truth becomes the most dangerous thing in the building.
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