White Octopus Hotel

By: Alexandra Bell

Published by Random House, 2025-10-28

<b>Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps, where two lost souls living in different centuries meet and discover if a second chance awaits them behind its doors.</b><br><br><i>“Have you travelled a long way?” she asked carefully..</i><br><i>A smile twitched at the corner of his mouth. “Well, yes,” he said slowly. “Yes, you could say that. But it was worth the wait.”<br></i><br><b> London, 2015.</b> When reclusive art appraiser Eve Shaw shakes the hand of a silver-haired gentleman in her office, the warmth of his palm sends a spark through her.<br><br>His name is Max Everly—curiously, the same name as Eve’s favorite composer, born one hundred sixteen years prior. And she has the sudden feeling that she’s held his hand before . . . but where, and when?<br><br><b> The White Octopus Hotel, 1935.</b> In this belle époque building high in the snowy mountains, Eve and a young Max wander the winding halls, lost in time.<br><br>Each of them has been through the trenches—Eve through a family accident and Max on the battlefields of the Great War—but for an impossible moment, love and healing are just a room away . . . if only they have the courage to step through the door.