Devastated by the deaths of her parents and disillusioned with life, Caroline Daynes is in America trying to connect with their memory. Travelling to her mother’s hometown of Williamsfield in Pennsylvania, she is caught in a snowstorm and forced to stop at The Egress hotel – somewhere she’d planned to visit as her parents honeymooned there.
From the moment she sets foot inside the lobby and meets the surly receptionist, she realises this is a hotel like no other. Charming and unique, it seems lost in time with a whole cast of compelling characters sheltering behind closed doors.
As the storm deepens, so does the mystery of The Egress. Who are these people she’s stranded with, what secrets do they hide? And, in a situation that’s becoming increasingly nightmarish, is it possible to find solace?
The second in the popular This Haunted World series (a set of standaone novels that blend fact with fiction), The Eleventh Floor was published in 2017. Since then it has sold over 10,000 ebooks and had more than 17,000,000 page reads in KU. It also sells well in paperback and audio.
Extract from Chapter One
Chapter One
From the driver’s seat of her rental car, Caroline leant forward to turn the radio up.
“We…e…e…ll,” the deejay said, dragging the word out as far as it would go, “it’s going to start getting very dramatic out there very soon. I’m not sure who amongst you remembers the Great Appalachian Snowstorm of 1950, but what’s in store looks set to rival it!”
Caroline swore. “Shit! A snowstorm. Seriously?”
It was mid-November, she was in Pennsylvania en route to the town of Williamsfield, and so far, the weather had been fair to middling. She’d landed in the US seven days before and had spent time in Upstate New York, just below the Canadian border, visiting family members she hadn’t seen since her late teens. Yes, there’d been rain, quite a bit of it, and certainly it was cold, but a snowstorm? That was the first she’d heard of it. How long was it supposed to last? Not long, surely – one or two days, three at the most? What a blow if it was the latter! With only a week left, that would seriously disrupt her schedule.
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Already translated.
Translated by Paola Sambruna and Alessandra Elisa Paganin
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Author review: An excellent translation as usual from Paola Sambruna and Alessandra Elisa Paganin - would not hesitate to recommend them. |
