In 1982, Viv wants to escape her oppressive home life and move to New York City, but instead she winds up in the tiny upstate town of Fell. She takes a job as the night desk clerk at the Sun Down Motel, which despite having been open for only a few years, has definitely seen better days.
It’s not long before some creepy things start happening at the motel. Viv also learns that a number of young women have been murdered in Fell over the last several years, and she becomes obsessed with solving the unsolved murders, immune to the danger she’s putting herself in. She tries to convince a local police officer of her discoveries and isn't quite taken seriously, so she decides to investigate on her own.
Twenty-five years later, in 2017, Carly, Viv’a niece, comes to Fell. One night in 1982, her aunt vanished, never to be heard from again. Carly is determined to figure out what happened, why her aunt’s disappearance took four days to notice. Given the monotony and sadness in Carly's own life, she decides to settle down in Fell for a short while.
Tracing her aunt’s footsteps, even taking the same shift at The Sun Down Motel, Carly starts noticing some crazy things happening. Is she going crazy or are these things actually happening? What do they mean if they're real? Will she solve the mystery of her aunt's disappearance or will she meet the same fate as Viv?
"Spend my nights at the Sun Down? I was the kind of girl who would spend the night in a supposedly haunted house, just to see what would happen. That sounded like my ideal vacation."
This really was as good as everyone has said it is. It was just the right amount of creepy for me (I'm scared a little too easily—don't judge), but the story was so compelling and it really kept me guessing. This is the first of St. James' books I've read, and it definitely won't be the last.
The Sun Down Motel publishes February 18!
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