Room Six Is Occupied

Sea Glass House looks like a place where the sea breeze can explain almost anything: swollen doors, damp floors, a telephone ringing in an empty room. Nerissa Cole has inherited the six-room Tobago guesthouse from an aunt whose reputation for hospitality seems as solid as the veranda. Five rooms can be booked. The sixth has its own monthly charge, its own instruction to remain occupied and a key nobody should be given. Then the booking inventory changes, a guest finds the wrong door and the reviews begin describing stays that have not happened yet. Every reassuring explanation seems to give the house another way to decide what its guests experienced. Room Six Is Occupied is contemporary coastal horror about a welcoming house, the account it has kept hidden and the danger of an owner who believes a good reputation should have the final word. The sea is outside. Until it isn’t.