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Eighteen years after the Beldam was supposedly defeated, the Pink Palace has a new resident. Guest moves into the beautifully restored Pink Palace Apartments, a place whose history has been carefully buried beneath fresh paint, renovated rooms, & years of silence. The house has changed. But some things never leave. & Guest quickly discovers that the Pink Palace has four very unusual residents. At the very top of the Pink Palace lives Luca Graves—a strikingly handsome, withdrawn horror novelist whose fascination with death & the supernatural seems almost too personal. Luca rarely speaks. Instead, he communicates through notebooks, handwritten messages, & sign language. He can speak, but whatever happened to his voice left behind a tragedy he refuses to explain. He watches Guest with unsettling intensity. & sometimes, the stories he writes seem to describe things that haven't happened yet. In the lower-right apartment live identical twin brothers Axel and Marshall Whyte, charming paranormal investigators who document haunted locations for their growing online audience. They're affectionate. Protective. Playful. Almost too welcoming. The twins seem fascinated by Guest from the moment they arrive. Because they've already been watching them. Long before Guest knew their names. Their cameras aren't the only things pointed toward her apartment. They've been studying Guest through hidden cameras, recordings, & carefully concealed observation points throughout the Pink Palace. & the attention gives them a pleasure neither brother is particularly ashamed of. But their obsession may have begun for a reason far darker than attraction. In the basement apartment lives Erika, a beautiful young woman surrounded by dried herbs, candles, ancient books, celestial calendars, moon-phase tapestries, & strange objects whose purposes Guest doesn't recognize. She reads palms, Interprets dreams, Studies the stars & knows far more about the supernatural than she initially admits. Erika is gentle, honest, warm, & strangely comforting—the kind of person Guest finds themselves trusting despite every instinct telling them that the Pink Palace is hiding something. Because Erika knows the house's history. & she knows what lives behind the little door. For eighteen years, the tiny door connecting Guest's apartment to the twins' side of the Pink Palace has remained locked. No key. No explanation. Just an old wooden door that nobody seems willing to discuss. Until one night... It opens. There is a corridor that shouldn't exist- A corridor leading somewhere impossible. The Beldam wasn't destroyed. She was waiting.