The Ferrin Rooms
Ten rooms. Nine keys. No reason to stay.
Dell Pruitt drives four hours into the Nevada desert to see his estranged wife. Margo has taken a housekeeping job at the Ferrin Auto Court, a roadside motel bypassed by the highway and forgotten by everyone else. He brings a lease and a pen. He expects a conversation.
The parking lot is empty. The family who runs the place is welcoming. And nothing they tell him quite fits.
A piano tuner by trade, Dell makes his living hearing what other people miss. At the Ferrin, a running tap sounds behind walls where the water has been shut off. Machinery starts at the far end of the row. Ten hooks hang behind the office counter, but only nine hold keys.
As the desert heat climbs and his way home slips out of reach, Dell begins tracing the building by sound: through ceilings, behind rooms, beneath concrete. Every explanation leads him further inside. Every small kindness makes it harder to know whom to fear.
Margo came here months before him. To find out what happened to her, he must discover what the Ferrin family has spent a lifetime keeping in order.
The Ferrin Rooms is an atmospheric horror novel of isolation, ordinary cruelty, and the terrible distance between a room that is empty and a room that is waiting.
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