The Fifth Room

<p>The Fifth Room is a secret sanctuary hidden behind the velvet rot of A Toronto speakeasy. Its front is for men - smoke whiskey illusions of power. But in the sacred back room women enter carrying ruin: betrayals secrets shame they have buried for years. Inside they are unmade and remade. Masks fracture. Wounds are stripped bare. And in candlelight and shadow transformation takes hold.</p><p>Charlotte has lived unseen for decades - ex-wife mother daughter always too much or not enough. Ashby Vale heir to a legacy built by his mother June chooses her as one of the women worthy of the room. To Ashby The Fifth Room is sacred created to honor a woman the world ignored. To Charlotte it is the first place where she is truly seen.</p><p>But the sanctuary exists in a city of predators. Lennox Harper rock star and sadist thrives on breaking women for sport. Professor Sage obsessed with Lennox and his cruelty lures Charlotte's niece Ivy into a spiral of manipulation. Their darkness collides with the women's search for rebirth pushing them toward a trial that will expose every<br />lie every cruelty every mask. </p><p>Gothic cinematic and psychologically charged. The Fifth Room is a story of ruin and resurrection where trauma becomes transformation and survival is written in shadow.</p>