There is no room number thirteen in The Crow's Nest hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the un-numbered door next to room twelve. And somebody - or someTHING - is inside. Fliss had dreamed of The Crow's Nest the night before she set off. Dreamed of the gate, the front door, and the mysterious room number thirteen. And dreamed of a voice hissing at each step: THE GATE OF FATE. THE KEEP OF SLEEP. THE ROOM OF DOOM...