The Eighth Room

A hotel that appears without warning, reshapes itself nightly, and devours the artists it invites inside—Esme Verlane, a painter whose figures literally step off the canvas, has been summoned to compete for the role of its next Architect. Six rival artists, each wielding impossible magic, must each design a single room while the building judges their worth. But as competitors begin vanishing into the walls, Esme discovers the prize is not an honor but a prison, and escape will demand the one thing the hotel has never contained: a way out.