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This House Is Not a Home
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $30.00
ISBN13: 9780063510296
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: Apr 6 2027
Pages: 272
Language: English
An inventive haunted house story with an uncanny twist, in which a woman mourning the recent death of her abusive mother takes a housekeeping job with increasingly strange and dangerous tasks, for fans of Carissa Orlando and Monika Kim.
Loretta is numb with grief. Reeling after the death of her abusive--although she would never use that word--mother and estranged from her younger sister, Loretta finds herself unemployed and alone.
Resolutely out of options, she hears of an unusual job opportunity. The owner of a huge home on the outskirts of town is looking for a live-in housekeeper--and offering thousands of dollars every week, in cash. There are only two simple rules: complete the daily chores left in the mailbox and no overnight guests. It seems like the perfect escape.
The idyllic solitude quickly sours into a waking nightmare. The daily chores escalate from simple cleaning to grotesque demands for Loretta's flesh and blood. Any resistance is met with painful and increasingly life-threatening punishments. Loretta is familiar with this situation--well trained by her mother and miserable childhood-- and isolates herself inside the carnivorous mansion. As her sense of reality warps and she falls deeper into the house's clutches, her friends and sister try to intervene before it's too late. But to survive, Loretta must decide whether to accept the comfort of familiar cycles or find out how hard she's willing to fight for herself.
Both a terrifying thriller and an emotional portrait of resilience in the face of abuse, This House Is Not a Home is an ambitious debut from an exciting new voice in adult horror.
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