Derek Moody
Satoshi thought winning a stay at Super Maid Mansion would be the vacation of a lifetime.Instead, he wakes in a decaying version of the mansion where windows open onto endless darkness, doors disappear, disturbing creatures roam the halls, and a blood-red warning waits at the entrance:DON’T GO OUT.When Satoshi returns to the normal mansion, everything appears perfect again. Ten cheerful maids provide food, entertainment, games, and every comfort he could want. They insist the mansion is part of a long-term hospitality experiment-and that deadly automated defenses make leaving impossible.But the story does not add up.An old photograph shows eleven maids instead of ten. A polka-dotted dress belongs to someone nobody remembers. The name Jason begins surfacing in fractured memories. And whenever Satoshi is pulled into the mysterious Dark Void, it shows him pieces of something terrible: ruined cities, abandoned roads, frightened strangers, hidden rooms, and fragments of a tragedy buried inside the mansion.With Lizzy at his side, Satoshi begins uncovering the truth about Jason and Nora, two people who once tried to leave.What happened to them was not an accident.And the deeper Satoshi digs, the more disturbing the mansion becomes. Memories disappear. Old roles begin repeating themselves. Friends forget conversations they had only hours before. Behind locked doors are secrets someone went to extraordinary lengths to erase.But one question remains more frightening than all the others:If the mansion has been lying about why nobody can leave... what is actually waiting outside?Welcome Home is a psychological supernatural horror mystery about memory, guilt, buried secrets, dangerous ideas of safety, and the terrifying difference between being protected and being trapped.
