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  “I don't have a room.”

  “One was booked in your name, M'am.”

  “It was?”

  “Most certainly.”

  “By who?”

  “I'm not at liberty to divulge that information, M'am. However, dinner is included, and the first seating will start promptly at 6pm. Shall I add your name to the list, or would you prefer the late seating at eight?”

  She stares at him for a moment, before stepping forward and looking around at the reception area. There's another chair in the corner, next to a table with a chessboard that looks all set for a game, while a fire is burning gently in the hearth. The whole scene is strangely peaceful, almost preternaturally still, until suddenly there's a loud thud and the building shudders for a moment. Framed photos rattle on the wall and the chessboard's pieces are almost toppled, but the vibration ends as quickly as it began, leaving Hannah once again standing quietly with a bemused expression.

  “Or perhaps you would like to take a drink in the lounge?” the bellboy asks, still smiling. “I recommend the cocktails most highly indeed.”

  “Huh,” she mutters, feeling a shiver pass up her spine as she steps forward and looks up the large spiral staircase that winds up toward the hotel's higher levels. “Well, this is definitely not what I was expecting.”

  Coming soon

  HARPER'S HOTEL GHOST GIRL

  (Death Herself book 4)

  “I've never been to a hotel that didn't have at least one ghost.”

  Everyone knows that Harper's Hotel is haunted. A ghostly presence is even mentioned on the official website, although most people just assume the stories have been exaggerated. When a new family checks in, however, they quickly discover that there really is a strange presence lurking in the building, and that its intentions are not necessarily benign. Something is waiting in one of the rooms, and its mind seems to be reaching out through the entire hotel.

  Meanwhile, a strange girl has shown up in the lobby. She seems lost and confused, and terrified of a chessboard in the corner. Taunted by the bellboy, she constantly tries to speak to the hotel's manager, only to be rebuffed at every opportunity. She keeps muttering about punishment, about paying a terrible price for her actions, but she also complains about being stuck in the hotel and unable to leave. Can she stop the presence that's hiding in upstairs, or is everyone at the hotel doomed to wander its hallways forever?

  Also available in this series

  ALICE ISN'T WELL

  (Death Herself book 1)

  “There are lots of demons in the sky above London. The problem is, this one came crashing down to earth.”

  Ten years ago, Alice Warner was attacked and disfigured by an attacker in her own home. She remembers nothing of the attack, and she has been in a psychiatric hospital ever since. When she's finally released, however, she starts working as a security guard at an abandoned shopping mall. And that's when she starts to realize that something is haunting her, keeping just one step out of sight at all times...

  Meanwhile, seventy years earlier, a little girl named Wendy is left orphaned after a World War 2 fighter plane crashes onto her house. Taken to a monastery, Wendy is quickly singled out by the nuns for special attention. They say she has been possessed by a demon, and that there's only one way to save her soul. Fortunately for Wendy, however, there's someone else who seems to know far more about the situation.

  THE HOUSE ON EVERLEY STREET

  (Death Herself book 2)

  “She always said that if she could come back to haunt me, she would.”

  John Myers is a popular and successful novelist, but memories of his troubled childhood still haunt him. When his childhood home comes onto the market, he snaps it up and goes back, determined to find out whether the place is really haunted, or whether he simply imagined the events of twenty years ago.

  Soon, John finds his entire existence starting to fall apart, and he's forced to question some of his most basic assumptions. Did his grandmother's ghost really haunt him when he was younger, and if so, is she still around? After his wife and children join him unexpectedly at the house, John is forced to face the horrific truth, as it becomes clear that the events that happened twenty years ago were far more awful than he remembers

  Also by Amy Cross

  THE FARM

  No-one ever remembers what happens to them when they go into the barn at Bondalen farm. Some never come out again, and the rest... Something about them is different.

  In 1979, the farm is home to three young girls. As winter fades to spring, Elizabeth, Kari and Sara each come to face the secrets of the barn, and they each emerge with their own injuries. But someone else is lurking nearby, a man who claims to be Death incarnate, and for these three girls the spring of 1979 is set to end in tragedy.

  In the modern day, meanwhile, Bondalen farm has finally been sold to a new family. Dragged from London by her widowed father, Paula Ridley hates the idea of rural life. Soon, however, she starts to realize that her new home retains hints of its horrific past, while the darkness of the barn still awaits anyone who dares venture inside.

  Set over the course of several decades, The Farm is a horror novel about people who live with no idea of the terror in their midst, and about a girl who finally has a chance to confront a source of great evil that has been feeding on the farm for generations.

  Also by Amy Cross

  ANNIE'S ROOM

  1945 and 2015. Seventy years apart, two girls named Annie move into the same room of the same remote house. Their stories are very different, but tragedy is about to bring them crashing together.

  Annie Riley has just broken both her legs. Unable to leave bed, she's holed up in her new room and completely reliant upon her family for company. She's also the first to notice a series of strange noises in the house, but her parents and brother think she's just letting her imagination run overtime. And then, one night, dark forces start to make their presence more keenly felt, leading to a horrific discovery...

  Seventy years ago, Annie Garrett lived in the same house with her parents. This Annie, however, was very different. Bitter and vindictive and hopelessly devoted to her father, she developed a passionate hatred for her mother. History records that Annie eventually disappeared while her parents were executed for her murder, but what really happened to Annie Garrett, and is her ghost still haunting the house to this day?

  Annie's Room is the story of two girls whose lives just happened to be thrown together by an unlikely set of circumstances, and of a potent evil that blossomed in one soul and then threatened to consume another.

  Also by Amy Cross

  ELI'S TOWN

  “Someone really should go check on Eli...”

  Every year, someone from the Denton family travels to the town of Tulepa, to check on weird old uncle Eli. This time around it's Holly's turn to make the journey, but when she arrives she discovers that not only is Eli missing, but the locals appear to be hiding something.

  Meanwhile, a strange curse seems to have struck the town. Every day, at exactly noon, one resident drops dead. Is the string of sudden fatalities just a coincidence? If it's something more sinister, why does no-one seem to be trying to uncover the truth? And what do these deaths have to do with the disappearance of Eli Denton, a strange old man who has barely even left his house in more than a decade?

  Eli's Town is a horror novel about an eccentric but seemingly harmless man who discovers a new way to live, and about his niece's desperate attempt to uncover the truth before she too succumbs to the town's mysteries.

  Also by Amy Cross

  THE ISLAND

  (STEADFALL BOOK 1)

  “The revolution never came. We all waited, but it didn't happen. Eventually we just had to accept that the world was never going to change.”

  In the near future, it's not hard to end up on the wrong side of the law. Every lie counts, every minor mistake. Build up enough points, and you'll be hauled off to work for the government. The only possible esca
pe is the island, a remote wilderness with no rules and no laws. But if you choose to go to the island, you can never come back.

  Everyone knows that only crazy people go to the island.

  Arrested for a crime she didn't commit, Iris soon discovers that she already has a long criminal record she never knew about. When her world comes crashing down, she makes the ultimate choice and invokes her right to be sent to the island. There, she quickly discovers the horrors of a land where anyone can do anything they want, free of all rules and laws. She also meets Asher, a mysterious girl with a dark past and a crazy plan to establish her own town in the midst of the island's chaos. First, though, they both have to face a deadly group with a taste for human flesh.

  The Island is the first book in the Steadfall series, about two people trying to establish their own order in a mad world, and about the horrors that take place when humanity is let off the leash.

  OTHER BOOKS

  BY AMY CROSS INCLUDE

  Horror

  The Farm

  The Border

  At the Edge of the Forest

  The Devil's Hand

  The Cabin

  After the Cabin

  Annie's Room

  The Priest Hole

  The Lighthouse

  Eli's Town

  3AM

  Asylum

  Meds (Asylum 2)

  Tenderling

  The Girl Clay

  The Prison

  American Coven

  The Night Girl

  Devil's Briar

  Ward Z

  The Devil's Photographer

  Take Me to Church

  Fantasy / Horror

  Dark Season series 1, 2 & 3

  Ascension (Demon's Grail book 1)

  Evolution (Demon's Grail book 2)

  The 13th Demon (Demon's Grail book 3)

  Dead Souls Volumes 1 to 4

  Lupine Howl series 1 to 4

  Grave Girl

  Graver Girl (Grave Girl 2)

  Ghosts

  The Library

  Journey to the Library (The Library Saga 2)

  Thriller

  Ophelia

  The Dead City (Ophelia 2)

  Fallen Heroes (Ophelia 3)

  The Girl Who Never Came Back

  The Dead and the Dying (Joanna Mason 1)

  The House of Broken Backs (Joanna Mason 2)

  Other People's Bodies

  Dystopia / Science Fiction

  The Island (Steadfall book 1)

  The Shades

  Mass Extinction Event series 1 to 4

  Table of Contents

  Prologue

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Epilogue