Description
A professional house-sitter takes an off-season caretaker job at an isolated Ozark bluff house under a false name, determined to prove the retired state senator who owns it killed his wife in 2007 and let her mother take the blame. She thinks she found the job by luck. She was chosen, by someone who needs her to find what the house is hiding before it sells in seven weeks.
Genre: Psychological thriller with a domestic core: a remote house, an old family tragedy, a small town that chose its villain
Tropes: Secluded house · Return to the scene · Hidden identity · Revenge that turns into justice · The powerful man’s affair with the housekeeper · Employer with a hidden agenda · Dual timeline, then/now
Target length: 80,000–88,000 words
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