HOTEL RUBY

When 17-year-old Audrey’s father decides they need to stop for the night en route to her grandmother’s house, where she and her brother will be living from now on, they check in to the Mount Ruby Hotel. It’s extravagant and glamorous, with rich wood furniture, fringed velvet fabrics, an impossibly large chandelier in the lobby, and everything from a day spa to a movie theater on the grounds.

But everything about the hotel is just a little...off. Audrey is put in a room of her own, on the 13th floor where no other guests are staying. While some of the staff seems to have impeccable manners, others have tempers that can flare up at a moment’s notice. And every day there’s a late-night party in the ballroom just off the lobby that only invited guests can attend. While her father keeps extending their stay and her brother makes moves on a volatile girl who everyone else seems to fear, Audrey gets close to Elias, a guest with a disarming smile and a wicked sense of humor. Though she dismisses claims the hotel is haunted as a marketing ploy meant to draw guests, she can’t help but notice that things are getting stranger and more sinister by the day. Once her father and brother are invited to the nightly party, it becomes clear that, like the other guests, they don’t intend to leave. With no one else she can trust, will Elias be her only way out? THE HOTEL, a cross between The Shining and the song “Hotel California,” is an intense and romantic thriller. Suzanne Young is the author of several books, including The Program and the forthcoming sequel The Treatment, also from Simon Pulse. Suzanne Young is the New York Times bestselling author of The Program series. Originally from Utica, New York, Suzanne moved to Arizona to pursue her dream of not freezing to death. She is a novelist and an English teacher, but not always in that order. Suzanne is the author of The Program, The Treatment, The Remedy, A Need So Beautiful, and Hotel Ruby. You can visit her online at Suzanne-Young.Blogspot.com.