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Room 17 has been sealed for twenty-two years. Staff don't go near it. Guests are never assigned to it. The official story is a fire of "undetermined origin." Nobody talks about the real one.
Ethan Cole just took the night shift. On his first week, he notices the security camera outside Room 17 cuts to black for exactly six seconds every night at 3:17 a.m. — and when the picture returns, the door is open. No one ever goes in. No one ever comes out.
Then one night, it opens for him.
Inside, a tape recorder begins to play. The voice on it is his own. He has never recorded it. He has never been inside this room.
"Whatever you do," it says, "don't open the wardrobe."
As Ethan digs into the hotel's past, he uncovers a twenty-two-year-old connection to his own childhood — and to the disappearance of his younger sister, Emily, the summer he was ten. Every answer he finds opens a worse question, until the one he's been avoiding his whole life: what if the room isn't hiding what happened to Emily, but what he did?
A slow-burn psychological thriller with supernatural edges, ROOM 17 is about memory, guilt, and the doors we seal shut in ourselves rather than face what's behind them.
