Jonathan Smith, age 23, is a fairly popular journalist for The New York Times, but his boss is breathing down his throat, and on the brink of firing him, unless he can get that bestselling in the paper by next week. Jonathan decides to visit the Hamilton Hotel, a two century old hotel, with a dark past of destruction and death. The hotel is in a state of decay as it spirals down during Jonathan's stay, but there's something deeper, something darker. And it all leads him to the events that took place on the thirteenth floor.