Sarah, an Asian-American college student moves into Sunnycrest Apartments because it’s a rare, affordable place. Strange things show up in her closet that don’t belong to her. Stranger still, they seem to come from the past. With the help of her psychiatrist, the girl she’s dating, and the quirky gay boy she met at a restaurant, Sarah realizes that her closet is actually a gateway to another time. Another world. A place where the same apartment belonged to the boyfriend of the final murder victim of a notorious serial killer that was never caught.
Sometimes the doorway takes her to another floor in the building, to the apartment the girl herself—Regina—lived in on the 11th floor, the apartment where the murder actually happened, but it always takes her to 1987. The two people connected to her through the gateway in her closet are the owners of the initials carved into the tree out in front of Sunnycrest.
Sarah’s girlfriend, Felicia, has been at Sunnycrest longer and helps her to understand that the whole building is haunted.
There is something strange about the place they live.
The dead are everywhere and some of them are dangerous. The living are not to be trusted, either. Sarah gets drawn in further and can’t let go. She wants to understand what Regina’s spirit is trying to tell her, what she needs, and how to turn her closet back into a closet. One thing she needs to remember though, is that there is a killer in 1987.
Can he still hurt her? Is any of it even real? Where will the gateway in Apartment 8 actually lead her?
This book starts with a bang and doesn’t let up. Housing in cities isn’t cheap, so when main character Sarah finds the Sunnycrest Apartments, she is delighted she can afford an apartment. What she doesn’t know is she is stepping into a nightmare. Shortly after moving in, Sarah discovers the closet in her apartment acts as a portal back to 1987. Back to when a young lady, Regina, is found murdered at Sunnycrest apartments.
Sarah is unwillingly dragged into Regina’s murder and finds the only way to be set free from the cycle is to help Regina by traveling back to the past and questioning current day residents about what happened to the girl. What she doesn’t expect is that the secrets that lie hidden at Sunnycrest go much deeper than she originally thought and no one is to be trusted. With the help of her girlfriend and a new friend, Leremy, she meets at a restaurant, Sarah confronts those involved, placing all their lives in danger. Only by uncovering the past and finding out the truth, can Sarah put an end to the secrets haunting the residents in Apt 53 and Apt 8.
This was a quick and intriguing read. Christo’s ability to write believable dialogue and relatable characters made it easy to jump right in. Well done!
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About our Guest Goat….
Juliet Rose is a multi-award-winning cross-genre author in contemporary fiction, visionary suspense, sci-fi realism, and supernatural horror. She is adept at blending genres and challenges both herself and the reader to think outside of their comfort zone by introducing new ideas into familiar tropes. She has eight published novels and her first novella Stitched Together. In her free time, she also dabbles in magazine and anthology writing. While she resides in the mountains of Georgia, she’s lived all over the United States and Mexico, using these experiences in her writing.
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