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They said the thirteenth floor was never built. They were wrong. In downtown Edmonton, Rooke Tower still stands. Thirty stories of concrete ambition. On paper, it skips from floor twelve to fourteen, a polite nod to superstition. In reality, the elevator sometimes stops where no button exists. Room 1313 waits. Eight people have vanished inside the building over five years. Each disappearance ends the same way. A grainy security clip. An elevator ride. Nothing coming back down. Detective Tabitha Darquequist does not believe in hauntings or urban legends. She believes in evidence, in patterns, in the obligation to bring the missing home. So when the moon turns the night electric blue and the elevator doors sigh open at 11:58 p.m., she steps inside alone. What greets her is not a ghost story. It's a voice she recognizes. A man who vanished in 1991. A recording that should not be speaking. 1313, Going Up is a slow-burn descent into a place the city refuses to acknowledge, where architecture remembers, elevators listen, and some doors exist solely to be opened once. Because the thirteenth floor was never built. But it's been waiting anyway.

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Aryn Bats is a Canadian author of horror, psychological thrillers, serial killer crime fiction, dark gothic fantasy epics, and relentless suspense. A self-publishing indie writer, Aryn began releasing work publicly at age 48, though the passion for storytelling started at sixteen. After decades working in the trades, a severe back injury and long recovery shifted the course of his life. When the depression lifted following successful spine surgery, the urge to write returned stronger than ever. Bats dusted off an old manuscript written as a teenager, expanded it into a full saga, and has not stopped since. Known for twisted serial-killer crime sagas like Grey Kong, Bah Bah Blacksheep, and Cry Little Sister, as well as Dark Fantasy Epics such as Brackengloom, also atmospheric stand-alone horrors such as The Coroner's Daughter, 1313, Marlowe's Grin. Bats blends psychological depth with dark, immersive storytelling. Readers who enjoy the unsettling tension of Stephen King, the psychological sharpness of Gillian Flynn, or the stylized darkness of shows like Hannibal, Dexter and Mindhunter will find a familiar chill in Aryn's work. Bats has more than 30 new stories in development... proof that sometimes a second chance at life ignites a fiercer voice than the first.

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