A Novella By Peter Meredith The hotel hides its secrets well... From the outside there’s nothing to suggest that within it lies a maze of sinister traps, deadly puzzles and the rotting corpses of twenty-six women. Michelle Stewart is supposed to be number twenty-seven. She wakes into a living nightmare, though at first she doesn’t realize that anything is wrong. Her suitcase sits neatly next to the bed, just like she left it, and her shoes are parked in front of the closet

The Corsairs have been driven away but only temporarily. Jillybean knows they’ll be back in even greater numbers, lusting for vengeance. Yet she is trapped on the hilltop surrounded by thousands of zombies and worse, she is out of medicine and fast becoming dangerously unpredictable. Things spiral quickly out of control when she is charged with coldblooded murder, barely escapes a fire that turns the hilltop and half the state to ash, and flees to a city that is being ravag