کتاب The Housemaid اثر Freida McFadden نشر مات

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 will soon learn that the Winchesters secrets are far more dangerous than my own...

every day I clean the Wichesters 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 Andrews handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it is hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Ninas life. the walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.

I only try on one of Ninas pristine white dresses once. just to see what it is like. but she soon finds out... and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it is far too late.

but I reassure myself: the Winchesters do not know who I really am.

they do not know what I am capable of...