When Audrey Casella arrives for an unplanned stay at the grand Hotel Ruby,
she’s grateful for the detour. Just months after their mother’s death, Audrey
and her brother, Daniel, are on their way to live with their grandmother,
dumped on the doorstep of a DNA-matched stranger because their father is
drowning in his grief.
Audrey and her family only plan to stay the night, but life in the Ruby can be
intoxicating, extending their stay as it provides endless
distractions—including handsome guest Elias Lange, who sends Audrey’s pulse
racing. However, the hotel proves to be as strange as it is beautiful. Nightly
fancy affairs in the ballroom are invitation only, and Audrey seems to be the
one guest who doesn’t have an invite. Instead, she joins the hotel staff on the
rooftop, catching whispers about the hotel’s dark past.
The more Audrey learns about the new people she’s met, the more her curiosity
grows. She’s torn in different directions—the pull of her past with its
overwhelming loss, the promise of a future that holds little joy, and an
in-between life in a place that is so much more than it seems…
Welcome to the Ruby.
Juniper, California. Now.
Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as
outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each
other the way no one else does. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with
the swift fury of a star exploding.
Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah’s health fails
and his grieving father loses himself to alcoholism. Noor, meanwhile, walks a
harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle’s liquor store while hiding
the fact that she’s applying to college so she can escape him—and
Juniper—forever.
When Sal’s attempts to save the motel spiral out of control, he and Noor must
ask themselves what friendship is worth—and what it takes to defeat the
monsters in their pasts and the ones in their midst.
From one of today’s most cherished and bestselling young adult authors comes a
breathtaking novel of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness—one that’s both
tragic and poignant in its tender ferocity.
All her life, Jani has dreamed of Elsewhere. Just barely scraping by with her
job at a tannery, she’s resigned to a dreary life in the port town of Durc,
caring for her younger sister Zosa. That is, until the Hotel Magnifique comes
to town.
The hotel is legendary not only for its whimsical enchantments, but also for
its ability to travel—appearing in a different destination every morning. While
Jani and Zosa can’t afford the exorbitant costs of a guest’s stay, they can
interview to join the staff, and are soon whisked away on the greatest
adventure of their lives. But once inside, Jani quickly discovers their
contracts are unbreakable and that beneath the marvelous glamour, the hotel is
hiding dangerous secrets.
With the vexingly handsome doorman Bel as her only ally, Jani embarks on a
mission to unravel the mystery of the magic at the heart of the hotel and free
Zosa—and the other staff—from the cruelty of the ruthless maître d’hôtel. To
succeed, she’ll have to risk everything she loves, but failure would mean a
fate far worse than never returning home.
