WE MEET THEM:
A NOVELLA

Kim checks in to the Denholm Square Inn on less than a whim.

When she thinks about things that people need most — things like food, and a roof, and a bed, and a bathroom, and someone they can trust — she knows she can get all of that at a hotel. She can’t always trust motels, and people who run bed-and-breakfasts are just people. People can be cruel, and make mistakes, and people have their own rules.

But a big old hotel, run by some guy with money who never even sees the place? Functioning thanks to a staff that’s paid well enough to give a shit? Kim loves those places.