What's better than spending Halloween with a spooky chiller! After a failed suicide attempt and a break up with her boyfriend, Lexi Ellis is on a train figuring out what to do with her life when serendipity strikes. She overhears a fellow passenger, Sophie Hallerton, talking to her friend about a nanny job in Norway, and Lexi, homeless and desperate to make a living, seizes the opportunity to swipe Sophie's job application and land the position for herself. Now posing as Sophie, Lexi is tasked with taking care of two girls Gaia and Coco, while their architect dad Tom spends his days building a high-concept, eco-friendly home up a cliff, a project which he started prior to the sudden death of his wife Aurelia. Soon enough, strange things begin to occur, leading Lexi to suspect Aurelia didn't kill herself. Blending elements of Nordic folklore, spine-tingling suspense and themes of environmentalism, C. J. Cooke cooks up a delicious gothic thriller that slowly reveals itself in increments, deftly transitioning between events leading up to Aurelia's death and the increasingly unsettling goings on in the present.
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