Emily Proudman has been offered the chance of a lifetime – leave her messy London life, move to a beautiful estate in France and help her boss’s wife take care of their daughter. It seems like the perfect opportunity to start again. But once there, Emily soon starts to suspect that her charismatic new employers aren’t telling her the whole truth. That there are even dangerous secrets hidden beneath the glamorous facade. Why have the family been moved to this isolated house so far from home? Why does her boss’s daughter refuse to speak or be touched?… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Foster care experiences mentioned
- Child abuse, including one slap scene, faking a child’s chronic illness, and forcing them to live in isolation (etc.)
- Discussions of childhood trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (c-PTSD)
- Parent with dementia
- Panic attacks
- Self-harm (on-page)
- Suicide by jumping (on-page)
- Alcohol consumption & abuse and implied drug abuse
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a daughter recounted
- Minor blood & injury depiction and emesis
- Attempted murder by gun violence
- Kidnapping and captivity of a child
- Stalking
- Financial difficulties discussed
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