Motel Styx paperback cover showing a black background with a neon motel sign that reads 'Motel Styx, best beds, best bodies'. Icons surround the sign, these are a condom, a coffin, a key card, feet with a toe tag, a plate and utensils, lips, a bed, and a skull. A quote at the top of the cover is from Judith Sonnet and it reads "disgustingly beautiful and beautifully disgusting."

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Motel Styx

By Michelle von Eschen and Jonathan Butcher

Formats: eBook, Paperback, Hardcover, Audiobook

Pages: 249

Tucked away in the Chihuahuan Desert lies a motel unlike any other…

Fueled by online trends, a shift in the American zeitgeist has led to the instatement of the Lazarus Act, legalizing the ‘recreational use’ of human corpses.

Ellis Mercer, recently bereaved, embarks on a secret mission to America’s first ‘necrotel’ to recover his wife’s remains, before her corpse and his memory of her are desecrated by the motel’s twisted membership.

As he uncovers the murky inner workings of Motel Styx, evading its suspicious staff and encountering a wild array of death-obsessed guests, he will be forced to face an unsettling truth: there is more than one way to define love.

Motel Styx is an elicit and disturbingly witty tale about lust, loss, and the last taboo.

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