A melancholic yet hopeful love story across time that follows a woman haunted by a past tragedy, a musician traumatized by his time in the WWI trenches, and the magical hotel that brings them together. Eve Shaw is haunted--not just by adorable rabbits and purple balloons that only she can see, but by grief and guilt over a devastating mistake she would do anything to undo. The White Octopus Hotel, a once-resplendent Belle Epoch building high in the Swiss Alps, is rumored to contain a numinous magic. A phone that lets you speak to the dead. A clock whose hands point not to hours and minutes but to Champagne, Truth, and Revelations. A music box that plays the most beautiful music in the world. But most critical to Eve is the rumored writing tablet that allows you to send a message to your past self--Eve's chance to undo the mistake that destroyed her life. . . if she can navigate a hotel that was abruptly abandoned in 1935 and has been a moldering ruin ever since. Yet as she steps throug