She needed an escape. What she found was a cage.
Sara Evans is desperate. Failing London life, crashing on her friend’s sofa, and haunted by rejections, she takes a radical chance: inventing Sarah Smith, a flawless nanny persona, to answer a cryptic job ad. The position is live-in, miles away in affluent St Albans, at the beautiful home of the enigmatic and stunning Theodora Bedford. It seems like the perfect refuge, a lifeline.
But Avenue Road is not the sanctuary Sara imagined. Behind the elegant facade, the house suffocates with unspoken tensions. Theodora is magnetic, intelligent, and deeply controlling, her demands increasingly blurring the lines between employer and employee, care and coercion. Her husband, Edward, is a ghost haunting the hallways, broken by secrets Sara begins to fearfully uncover. And their watchful daughter, Araminta, sees far more than she lets on.
Drawn deeper into the Bedfords' complex and dangerous orbit, Sara finds herself entangled in a web of psychological manipulation, forbidden desires, and chilling secrets about the woman who came before her. Theodora's world is intoxicating, seductive, and utterly inescapable. As Sara sinks further under her employer's skin, discovering the darkness beneath the perfect surface, she realizes her fake identity might be the least of her lies – and the price of escape might be higher than she could ever imagine.
How far will she go to survive being trapped in Her world?
Genre: Mystery
Sara Evans is desperate. Failing London life, crashing on her friend’s sofa, and haunted by rejections, she takes a radical chance: inventing Sarah Smith, a flawless nanny persona, to answer a cryptic job ad. The position is live-in, miles away in affluent St Albans, at the beautiful home of the enigmatic and stunning Theodora Bedford. It seems like the perfect refuge, a lifeline.
But Avenue Road is not the sanctuary Sara imagined. Behind the elegant facade, the house suffocates with unspoken tensions. Theodora is magnetic, intelligent, and deeply controlling, her demands increasingly blurring the lines between employer and employee, care and coercion. Her husband, Edward, is a ghost haunting the hallways, broken by secrets Sara begins to fearfully uncover. And their watchful daughter, Araminta, sees far more than she lets on.
Drawn deeper into the Bedfords' complex and dangerous orbit, Sara finds herself entangled in a web of psychological manipulation, forbidden desires, and chilling secrets about the woman who came before her. Theodora's world is intoxicating, seductive, and utterly inescapable. As Sara sinks further under her employer's skin, discovering the darkness beneath the perfect surface, she realizes her fake identity might be the least of her lies – and the price of escape might be higher than she could ever imagine.
How far will she go to survive being trapped in Her world?
Genre: Mystery
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