Room 705 Is Waiting
Released 12th July 2025
Available Format(s) KDP / Paperback
A motel off Route 66. A key waiting on an empty desk. A guestbook already open.
At Sanctuary Edge, the guests don’t realise they’re dead—until Room 705 begins peeling back what they’ve buried: guilt, memory, and versions of themselves that shouldn’t still exist. Time fractures. Reality distorts. And the fog always returns for what the room remembers.
Why I Wrote It
I didn’t start 705 with a plot. I started with a question that wouldn’t leave me alone: What if the places we fear most aren’t haunted by anything external—what if they’re haunted by what we refuse to face?
I’ve always been drawn to quiet horror. Not monsters in corridors—though corridors have their place—but the slow, intimate dread of a mind trying to protect itself. The way memory edits the past to keep us functioning. The way guilt can become a second skin. The way denial can feel like safety… until it doesn’t.
Sanctuary Edge became the perfect shape for that idea: a motel that doesn’t chase you, it simply waits. A room that doesn’t punish you, it reveals you. A guestbook that doesn’t record visitors like a novelty, but like a ledger—proof that something arrived, stayed too long, and left pieces behind.
I wanted each character to feel like a different era of the same human problem—running, hiding, pretending the worst thing never happened—until the room forces a reckoning. Because some doors don’t open outward. Some open inward. And once they do, you don’t get to decide what comes back through with you.
Expect: fractured time, shifting reality, creeping dread, and psychological horror rooted in memory and guilt—set inside a motel that behaves like a mind that won’t stay quiet.
