Everyone remembers Room 417.

Former staff can describe its wallpaper. Guests still rave about the view. Collectors pay real money for brass keys stamped 417, and faded receipts prove people slept there.

There's only one problem. Room 417 has never existed.

When preservation architect Greer Whitlock arrives in the coastal town of Sable Harbor, she expects two quiet weeks documenting the historic Grand Marlowe Hotel before the wrecking crews arrive. Every blueprint, tax record, and engineering survey agrees on one thing: the fourth floor has sixteen rooms. It has always had sixteen. There is no seventeenth, and there never was.

Yet everyone remembers Room 417.

Callum Ford never wanted the Grand Marlowe. He planned to sign the sale, pocket the check, and walk away from a family legacy that had only ever been a weight. Then he found the note his great-aunt left before she died.

Ask about 417.

The deeper Greer and Callum dig, the stranger the evidence gets. Guest registers marked with tiny stars. Decades-old postcards. Photographs that shouldn't exist. Memories that agree on everything except the facts. Someone went to extraordinary lengths to erase one room from history, and someone else spent a lifetime making sure it was never forgotten.

They have until demolition day to find out why.

Because some places don't just preserve history. They preserve second chances, the people we were afraid to become, and the courage to open a door that's been shut for fifty years.

Perfect for readers who love clever puzzles, unforgettable settings, and slow-burn romance, Room 417 is a warm, witty, and wholly original mystery you'll read long into the night. It will leave you certain that the best-kept secrets were never hidden in the walls.

They're hidden in the stories we refuse to forget.

Room 417: An Impossible Romantic Mystery

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