The Guest in Room 9

By: Viney Author

Nora Vance comes home to Caldwell Cross to bury her father and sell the Marlowe Inn.

Then she finds the ledgers.

For thirty years, every October 3, the same mysterious guest has been recorded in Room 9. One night. Cash. No address. The entry is always written in her father's hand.

October 3 is also the night Lily Ardren disappeared in 1996.

The deeper Nora looks, the stranger the pattern becomes: a room kept ready in an almost empty inn, one-way bus tickets to different towns, a hidden key, old newspaper reports, and people who seem to know more than they are willing to say.

What begins as a search for the identity of a guest becomes a reckoning with the choices that shaped an entire town - and with the father Nora thought she understood.

The Guest in Room 9 is a suspenseful, character-driven mystery about family, buried truth, protection, guilt, and the cost of deciding what another person is allowed to know.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJQT4SB7
• ISBN13: 9798174190948
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"