No Saints at Check-In
An insurance investigator poses as a hotel night manager beside the owner she suspects. The guests arrive with compensation claims dated before their accidents.
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The Maid Who Counted the Echoes
In 1911, a country-house maid is paid to count the echoes in each room. When one room returns an extra voice, she recognizes the woman dismissed before she arrived.
The Chapel Was Built for Our Mistakes
An adult acoustics engineer and a restoration architect discover a chapel that repeats promises nobody remembers making. Their attraction deepens as they investigate a patron who intends to make every promise binding.
Vows for the Missing
A restoration specialist accepts a paper marriage to a missing-person investigator. Their inherited chapel contains wedding photographs taken next week.
The Attic Has Requested a Tenant
In 1923, a boarding-house owner receives rent from the sealed attic. The lodger's references are signed by all the people who died rebuilding it.
A Portrait for the Unburied
In 1896, a portrait painter is hired to paint a living man's funeral portrait. Every sitter she chooses as a reference disappears from the household records.
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