The Secretary Volume II: A Psychological Thriller
Paperback
Series: After Hours, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 15 2025
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The last woman who checked yes is still trying to remember what Shergar Corp did to her. Now the same note is sitting on Lena Blackwell's desk.
Lena needs this job.
She's broke, living out of her car, and desperate enough to believe that Shergar Corp might be the fresh start she's been waiting for.
The salary is excellent.
The benefits are better.
And the company seems very interested in giving Lena exactly what she needs.
Then she meets Gillian Martin.
Polished. Controlled. Almost perfect.
And quietly trying to warn her.
Gillian knows what happens when Ellis Harrison takes an interest in his secretary. She knows about the notes. The choices that aren't really choices. The sessions. The missing pieces.
She also knows nobody listens until it's too late.
Then Lena finds the note.
Do you have what it takes to be in my world? Check yes or no.
She's seen those words before.
So has Gillian.
And at Shergar Corp, replacing a secretary is easy.
Making sure the old one doesn't remember why is part of the process.
Now Lena has to decide how far she's willing to go for the life Shergar is offering her-while Gillian races to piece together what the company took from hers.
Because this isn't the first time Ellis has done this.
It's a system. And Lena has just been hired into it.
The Secretary: Volume II is a razor-sharp psychological thriller about ambition, memory, control, and a company that doesn't just replace its employees-it rewrites them.
Read if you like:
- Corporate psychological thrillers where the dream job becomes a trap
- Powerful bosses who treat people like replaceable assets
- Women trying to outmaneuver a system designed to control them
- Memory gaps, medical manipulation, and missing pieces
- Morally gray characters and high-stakes mind games
- Dark workplace suspense with secrets behind closed doors
- Psychological thrillers where saying yes is only the beginning
- Fast-paced stories with escalating twists and shifting loyalties
- Severance, The Girl Before, and The Housemaid
- Books that make you suspicious of excellent benefits
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