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The hotel’s lobby, lit a sparkling white by a chandelier the size of a car, with a grand central staircase climbing to the higher floors and corridors leading off in every direction. Down the nearest of them runs a long row of doors, every one of them shut: the detail that stays with Kate afterward. Behind her, a reception desk she would have sworn was not there a moment ago.

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  • “under a chandelier the size of a car that lit everything a sparkling white” (Prologue)paragraph 12
  • “a long row of doors that were every one of them shut” (Prologue)paragraph 12

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