Bedbugs at Suite Nine

A century-old experiment never died. It just learned to wait.In 1887, a quack inventor named Tobias Quill built a machine he called the Vitality Apparatus and burned a boarding house down, testing it on a stray dog. The fire was put out. The back room was bricked up. And something small crawled into the wall and waited.One hundred and thirty-nine years later, a renovation crew at the run-down Wayfarer Inn puts a sledgehammer through that wall and wakes it up.When traveling nurse Dana Ruiz checks into Room 9, she doesn't know she's renting a room with a history of unexplained bites, guests who flee at 3 a.m., and a smell bleach never fully kills. Soon, what starts in Suite 9 is spreading to the Alvarez family across town, to a string of bites that "don't quite look right," and to a pattern two pest techs can't explain.As an exterminator named Marcus digs deeper, he uncovers Ray Calloway's buried secret, a century-old device still humming behind drywall, and an infestation that's been engineered to be smarter, faster, and far harder to kill than anything in the textbook. The bugs aren't just spreading. They're organized.Now it's a race against a ticking clock, disable the device, contain the colony, and stop a town-wide outbreak before Suite 9's secret becomes everyone's problem.BEDBUGS AT SUITE NINE is a fast-paced horror thriller that fuses small-town suspense with body-horror dread, perfect for fans of stories where the real threat was hiding in the walls the whole time.Warning: you may never look at a hotel room the same way again.

Pages: 132, Paperback, Independently published