High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dawn at the Royal Star is a 2011 science fiction novel by Canadian writer Jeff Sinasac. It was published as a Kindle E-book by Amazon on August 14, 2011. The novel takes place entirely within the fictional Royal Star hotel in downtown Toronto, Canada and surrounds the plight of some 500 hotel patrons who awake one morning to find that the entire world beyond their hotel is frozen in time, and that they have no way to leave.