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The Hotel Keeps Your Secrets
Paperback
Series: Away from Home, Book 8
Publisher: Knox Harrow
Published: Aug 13 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Every hotel room is a confessional. The difference is that a priest forgets. We keep records.
Probate attorney Amelia Crane is used to unraveling the complicated legacies of the dead. She approaches her work with cold precision, untangling estates and dividing assets. But when her father-a respected Superior Court judge-dies suddenly, he leaves behind a mystery she cannot easily file away.
A small, antique brass key arrives in the mail, granting her access to a forgotten vault deep beneath the historic Whitmore Hotel in Boston. Inside, she finds a handwritten confession detailing her father's involvement in securing a wrongful arson conviction.
The letter threatens to destroy her father's posthumous reputation, but as Amelia investigates, she realizes the confession is a carefully constructed forgery. It is just one piece of a massive, decades-long blackmail operation run from the hotel's shadowy, climate-controlled archives. The mastermind behind it targets grieving families, manufacturing sins from fragments of truth and extorting them for their silence.
Targeted by a brilliant and meticulous manipulator who has already studied her every weakness, Amelia must race to find her father's real hidden vault before the hotel's director can destroy the evidence. But the trap is perfectly designed: exposing the extortion ring means exposing her father's actual, buried misconduct-and her own guilt in keeping it hidden for years.
With the clock ticking and the hotel's flawless facade closing in around her, Amelia must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to stop the machine.
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