First published 2025
Natalie watches her best friend walk out of a dance club with a well-dressed stranger. The next morning, her friend turns up unconscious at a bus stop and never wakes up. She lies in a hospital bed, in a coma, and whatever happened that night is locked inside her. Weeks later, Natalie spots the same man on the cover of a financial magazine. He is the Man of the Year. He is a millionaire. He is famous. Natalie knows him as the last person seen with her friend before everything went wrong. She gets herself hired as a housekeeper at his mansion. The plan is clean: watch him, collect evidence, make him answer for what he did. But the mansion pushes back. The staff treats her with open hostility. The rules are strange and unexplained. She feels followed on her walk home. And the housekeeper who worked there before her has gone missing entirely. Natalie came in thinking she was the one running a trap. The truth she uncovers forces her to reconsider that. From the author of Love, Mom!, this thriller asks how well you can know someone when everyone around you is hiding something.
Genres: suspense, mystery, adult-fiction, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, tension-filled, unsettling
Tropes: nothing-is-as-it-seems, trapped-situation, undercover-infiltration, unreliable-narrator
Setting: dance-club, bus-stop, hospital, mansion
Period: contemporary
320 pages · Paperback · Poisoned Pen Press
Content warnings: death, violence