The Meriwether Hotel's Off-Season Secrets
A Novel

About this book:

When the last guest departs the Meriwether Hotel, the real season begins. On a windswept Maine headland, three generations of women—seventy-one-year-old Martha, pragmatic Clara, and restless June—perform the annual ritual of locking down the hundred-year-old inn against winter's fury. But this year, the familiar routines mask something older and more deliberate: a corridor that doesn't appear on any blueprint, a brass key that fits no numbered door, and a house that doesn't just settle when the tourists leave—it wakes.

As fog swallows the coast and the phone lines die, the Meriwether women begin their true work: covering mirrors, sealing thresholds, and feeding the darkness that lives behind the wainscoting. Each has her role. Martha knows the rules. Clara maintains the order. June is starting to ask questions. And somewhere in the salt-rotten timbers, something has been waiting all summer for the house to exhale.

Atmospheric, claustrophobic, and steeped in New England gothic, *The Meriwether Hotel's Off-Season Secrets* is a slow-burn mystery where the building itself is the chief suspect—and the family that tends it may be its willing prisoners.