First published 2023
Joanne has everything she wanted. Her husband Richard adores her. Baby Evie fills their beautiful home with joy. Then Chloe arrives at their door. Richard's twenty-year-old daughter cut contact when he married Joanne two years earlier. Now Chloe wants to reconcile. She offers to move in temporarily and help care for the newborn. Joanne agrees, hoping to build a relationship with her stepdaughter. Strange incidents begin almost immediately. Objects go missing. Joanne questions her own memory. She starts to doubt her sanity as small but disturbing events pile up around her. Chloe appears helpful and concerned, but Joanne grows suspicious. Did Chloe return to make peace, or does she have darker motives? Joanne realizes she may have invited danger into her home, but Chloe has already settled in. Getting rid of her stepdaughter might prove impossible. Joanne must figure out what Chloe really wants before she loses everything she holds dear.
Genres: fiction, mystery, adult, adult-fiction, thriller
Vibes: dark, paranoid, suspenseful, tension-filled, unsettling
Tropes: gaslighting, hidden-motives, toxic-relationship, unreliable-narrator
288 pages · Paperback · Independently published
Content warnings: emotional-abuse, gaslighting