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The Housemaid

Freida McFadden

Fresh out of prison and living in her car, Millie Calloway takes a live-in housekeeping job at the Winchesters' glossy Long Island estate. She cooks, cleans, collects daughter Cecelia from school, and sleeps in a cramped attic room that locks from the outside. Nina Winchester sabotages her work, neighbor gossip paints Nina as unstable, and handsome Andrew seems like the only kind person in the house. Enzo, the Italian gardener, keeps saying one word: pericolo. Danger. Then the story flips, and every kindness in that marble hallway has to be reread.

“I only try on one of Nina's pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it's like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it's far too late.”

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