The Guest in Room 402: Some secrets are better left locked.

By M. Sabbir I.

One forbidden room. Two decades of lies. A truth that could shatter her mind.

Disgraced investigative journalist Elena Vance needs to disappear. After a high-profile scandal destroys her career in London, she seeks refuge at the isolated Blackwood Peak Resort-a dark, Victorian monolith hidden deep within the suffocating mists of the mountains.

But the mountain has been waiting for her.

The caretaker, a gaunt man named Silas, has three rules:

Dinner is served at seven.The generator dies at midnight.And never, under any circumstances, approach the fourth floor.

But Elena's journalistic instincts are a curse, not a gift. When she hears the rhythmic scraping and a woman's desperate whispers echoing from the chained doors of Room 402, she breaks the ultimate rule. Inside, she doesn't just find dust and decay. She finds a photo of herself from twenty years ago-clutching a silver locket she's never taken off.

As the lines between her memories and the mountain's hauntings begin to blur, Elena realizes she wasn't invited to the resort as a guest. She was brought there as a payment.

Now, trapped in a house that breathes and watches, Elena must decide: is she the one investigating the mystery, or is she the monster at the center of it?

In this chilling psychological thriller, the greatest danger isn't the ghost in the hallway-it's the stories we tell ourselves to survive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GPN9FH2L
• ISBN13: 9798249232719
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"