Kansas City, 1996. Room 1422 of the Crown Veil Hotel. Amie knows how to survive. She knows how to stay small, check locks, count breaths, and call it a life. As a single mother with a past she can’t quite outrun, she is used to wanting less than she needs. Then she meets Ken. What begins as a negotiated weekend of rules, safewords, and control becomes something far more unsettling: a mirror, a fracture, a choice. Ken does not take what is not offered. He waits. He watches. He makes Amie feel seen in ways that terrify her more than force ever could. But Room 1422 has its own strange pulse. Tarot cards, repeating numbers, impossible timing, and songs that seem to know too much gather around them like warnings. Dark, erotic, funny, and psychologically intimate, Almost is a story about consent, survival, desire, and the terrifying question of what happens when a woman finally begins to choose herself. Explicit content. Intended for adult readers only.