“Welcome to the family,” says Nina Winchester as Millie shakes the elegant, manicured hand held out to her. Millie smiles politely as she gazes around the marble hallway. After leaving prison, losing her job and being evicted, and now living in her car, this live-in maid job is Millie’s last chance to start afresh. Every day she will be happy to clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house from top to bottom, to collect their daughter from school, and cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to her tiny attic room which only locks from the outside.
It’s hard to ignore how Nina deliberately makes a mess just to watch Millie clean it up, how she tells lies about her daughter, or how she wrongly accuses Millie of forgetting things. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. As Millie looks into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.
Millie soon learns that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than hers, but reassures herself that the Winchesters don’t know who she really is, and what she is capable of…
This psychological thriller had me glued to the pages. The end is very satisfying.
∼ Happy Reading∼
Polly x
I read this book some while ago and found it quite disturbing.
ReplyDeleteThere are two more in the series, I keep meaning to read them but I'm kept busy with book club choices!
DeleteSo many evil possibilities in that scenario!
ReplyDeleteThere certainly are!
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