The Rooms We Keep

Mara Ellison has built her life around forgetting. After a breakdown she refuses to discuss, she leaves the city and accepts a temporary job restoring an abandoned seaside hotel inherited by a man she has never met. Elias Vale is brilliant, guarded, and haunted by the disappearance of his younger sister years earlier. He believes the hotel contains the answer. Mara believes it contains nothing but dust, locked rooms, and a chance to start over. Their attraction is immediate, unsettling, and impossible to trust. As they work side by side, Mara begins experiencing vivid memories that do not feel like memories at all: a child crying behind a blue door, a woman pleading in the storm, Elias whispering her name before they ever met. Elias fears Mara knows more about his sister than she admits. Mara fears he may be manipulating her fragile mind. When hidden recordings and altered photographs expose a connection between them, desire turns to suspicion. To discover the truth, they must enter the hotel’s sealed west wing—and confront the possibility that their love began long before either of them remembers.