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The Housemaid

By: Freida McFadden
Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
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Summary

“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own....

Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.

I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband, Andrew, seems more broken every day. But as I look 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.

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.

But I reassure myself: The Winchesters don’t know who I really am.

They don’t know what I’m capable of....

©2022 Freida McFadden (P)2023 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.

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FANTASTIC!

It had me gripped from the first chapter! An impressive plot full of intrigue and unpredictable twists that kept me on the edge of my seat and guessing. I didn't want to put the book down. A really absorbing first read by Freida McFadden. It definitely won't be my last!

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An absolutely fabulous book of intrigue and suspense. Very well read, greet characters, kand a must read.

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outstanding story

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What a great read!

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This book had me staying up all night to finish!

I've been reading thrillers and had a lot of predictable disappointments...but the plot twists in this book......love love love it!

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