Sloane Mercer is a master of control, but her life has just spectacularly unraveled. Fleeing the wreckage of a thirteen-year marriage to her ruthless ex-wife, the high-powered executive checks into The Alcott hotel with a zipped suitcase and a desperate need to hide. She’s done performing. She’s done managing. She just wants to disappear. Iris Moreno erases evidence for a living. As a housekeeper at the luxury boutique hotel, she is practically invisible—and she likes it that way. Iris reads guests by the wreckage they leave behind, taking pride in restoring perfect order to their temporary lives. But the exhausted, beautiful woman in 412 is a puzzle she can’t solve, and the first guest Iris has ever wanted to truly see. What begins with extra blankets and unasked-for teas soon turns into stolen conversations and an escalating, undeniable tension. When the professional boundaries finally snap, the physical chemistry between them is explosive, shattering the rules they’ve both sworn to live by. But room 412 is a temporary refuge, and the stark gap between Iris’s working-class reality and Sloane’s elite world is waiting right outside the hotel doors. To build a real life together, they will have to check out of their safe haven and risk everything in the real world.
