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Confined to an opulent Beverly Hills hotel during a raging wildfire a young couple is caught in the escalating tension between the wealthy guests and the staff in Liska Jacobss blistering dark social satire The Pink Hotel

Newlyweds Keith and Kit Collins can hardly believe their luck when the general manager of the iconic opulent Pink Hotel invites them to come for a luxurious stay as a bid to hire Keith Kit loves their smalltown life but Keith has always wanted more and the glittering lilyscented lobby makes him feel right at home

Soon after their arrival wildfires sweep through the surrounding mountains and Los Angeles becomes a pressure cooker with riots breaking out across the city amid rolling blackouts The Pink Hotel closes its doors to outsiders and Keith and Kit find themselves confined with an anxious disgruntled staff and a growing roster of eccentric ultrawealthy dangerously idle guests who flock to the hotel for sanctuary company and entertainment

The Pink Hotel exposes a tenuous class system within its walls full of insurmountable expectations and unspoken resentments which deteriorate as the city burns In her barbed provocative new novel Liska Jacobs explores the corrosive nature of greed and interrogates the notion of true love while hurtling listeners toward certain disaster

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar Straus and Giroux