For guests only: Here, every mistake becomes evidence.

By Dominik Mikulaschek

In For Guests Only, a chilling psychological thriller set inside an exclusive boutique hotel, what begins as a simple overnight assignment turns into a terrifying fight for survival, truth, and innocence. Mara Stein arrives at a luxury hotel on the US East Coast expecting a quiet job caring for a high-profile guest. The building is elegant, discreet, and perfectly controlled. Every detail seems designed to create comfort, privacy, and order. But behind the polished surface, something is deeply wrong. From the moment Mara enters the hotel, one message follows her everywhere: For Guests Only. At first, it sounds like a normal house rule, the kind of phrase found in high-end hotels where exclusivity matters. Certain floors are restricted. Certain doors are off limits. Certain questions are not welcome. But the deeper Mara moves into the hotel's strange nightly routine, the more she realizes that these words are not there to protect the guests. They are there to control everyone else. Mara has been assigned to care for Dorian Hale, a powerful and mysterious VIP recovering in Suite 3B after a medical emergency. The hotel manager, Carmen Vale, explains the rules with calm professionalism: do not enter restricted areas, do not use private devices on the network, do not ask unnecessary questions, and never cross into spaces marked For Guests Only. The rules sound simple. Reasonable, even. But in this hotel, rules are not meant to guide behavior. They are meant to create traps. Soon, small irregularities begin to pile up. Mara's keycard stops working. Security appears too quickly. Surveillance footage seems to place her in the wrong place at the wrong time. Access logs tell a different story from the one she lived. Doors she never opened appear on her record. Reports are filed before she can explain herself. What should be a misunderstanding becomes something much worse: a carefully constructed case against her. That is what makes For Guests Only so gripping. This is not

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3384851579
• ISBN13: 9783384851574
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Tredition Gmbh
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"