Overview

Adam’s glad to get a single room his freshman year of college: it’s small, but it’s all his. East Tower is where all the jocks dorm: football, wrestling, track, lacrosse, even baseball have their own floors. Adam is one of the few inhabitants of East who doesn’t play a sport, and that’s fine with him: he doesn’t need a sport to occupy his time. He loves to read in the relative quiet of his private room, and he’s even thinking about trying to date: maybe it’s time to come out of the closet and be openly gay.

Then he discovers that East 616 has a reputation from its last inhabitant, Tristian. And when Adam discovers an old diary, he learns more about the history of the room’s reputation.

But reputations don’t graduate, and spaces can have spirits of their own. As he delves deeper and deeper into the sometimes sordid history of the room and its prior inhabitants, he begins to wonder about the present and the future — and the question of what might come out of East 616.