No Twelfth Floor - Couverture souple

M, Abir

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798192990827

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The Vantage Hotel has eleven floors. The blueprints agree. The fire certificate agrees. The elevator panel agrees. So why does the brass key in Isla Vance’s dead mother’s jewelry box open a twelfth?

Isla came to bury a question, not open one. Three weeks after her mother’s funeral she found a hotel confirmation, a claim ticket, and a key — proof of a secret her mother kept careful enough to hide from her own daughter for a lifetime. So she books the room. She rides the elevator. She watches the display climb past eleven to a number that should not exist, and steps out onto a floor that is finished, lit, staffed, and on no plan the county has ever seen.

Investigative journalist June Halloway has spent three years learning that the most dangerous lies aren’t told. They’re filed.

When Isla calls, June recognizes the shape of it at once — a version of it nearly destroyed her own family years before Isla ever checked into Room 1208. Together they follow ledgers, elevator logs and linen counts into something far larger than one hidden room: a company that doesn’t fabricate evidence so much as maintain it. Decades deep. Patiently aged. Indistinguishable from the truth because, in every way a courtroom recognizes, it has already replaced it.

What waits at the center isn’t a monster.

It’s a calm, courteous man who believes completely that he is protecting people from the chaos of an unfinished record. And a room that was never built to hide a secret — it was built to keep one warm.

No twelfth floor exists. That was always the point.

Why readers don’t put this series down:

• A mystery that plays fair — every reveal seeded chapters before it lands, nothing handed over wholesale


• Two women at the center: a grieving daughter assembling her mother’s hidden life, and a journalist for whom this is personal in ways she won’t say out loud


• An antagonist who is never a cartoon — his logic is coherent, his courtesy is real, and that is exactly what makes him frightening


• Atmosphere you can feel: brass fittings, cold elevator light, the particular hush of a corridor that has been kept rather than merely cleaned


• A slow burn that never stalls, and a fully closed ending — no cheap cliffhanger, no thread held hostage to force a sale

New to the Vantage, or checking in for the final stay? Either way you’re covered. NO TWELFTH FLOOR closes the trilogy in full while standing completely on its own. You don’t need Books One and Two to feel the floor tilt under you. You’ll simply want them the moment you finish.

If you’re drawn to the quiet dread of a locked-room psychological thriller, the institutional menace of a legal conspiracy, or the ledger-by-ledger unraveling of a slow-burn investigation, the Vantage will not let you check out early.

Scroll up and one-click NO TWELFTH FLOOR today. Some floors are hard to find. This one was never meant to be found at all.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798192990827
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 242
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg