When 16-year-old Margot Radegan survives a car crash that kills her parents and two sisters, there's no turning back. She is sent to an orphanage, where she has her own room, a luxury, but only because she wakes up screaming every night. So she herself cannot believe her luck when she is offered a chance to live with the Suttons, an old family friend of Margot's father, at their remote country estate. But there's a catch: she has to be a companion to their 17-year-old daughter, Agatha, who is suffering from an inexplicable illness that's rendered her speechless and barely responsive to what's going around her. With no access to cellular services or internet, Margot slowly eases into her new life, but as the sprawling gothic house reveals itself in mysterious shades, she begins to realise not everything is what it seems and that her own life may be in danger. Narrated entirely from the perspective of Margot, author Katie Alender sets up an eerie (if a little predictable) thriller that cleverly blends atmosphere, suspense, and twisty secrets from the past into a potent, intense read.
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