She Was Hired to Stay

About this book:

June Miller has forty-seven dollars in her checking account, an eviction notice taped to her door, and a job offer that defies belief: fifteen thousand dollars for thirty days of housesitting an ultra-modern, iron-gated estate deep in the Cascades. Her only duties are to be present—cook a meal, run the water, keep the lights on. It’s the easiest money she’ll ever make, provided she follows every rule.

Ridge House isn’t just remote. Behind its gates, cell signals die, hidden cameras watch from ceiling vents, and a locked server room hums beneath the floorboards. The guidelines are absolute: no visitors, no exceptions, and a curfew that keeps her locked upstairs from eleven p.m. until dawn. The owner wants the house occupied, but something here is determined to make sure she’s never truly alone.

As midnight malfunctions and missing hours stack up, June realizes her caretaking job comes with a price far steeper than rent. The house remembers its former residents, and the final contract has no exit clause. For readers who love suffocating isolation, smart-home paranoia, and secrets locked behind steel and glass, *She Was Hired to Stay* is a thriller you won’t be able to put down—even after the gates swing shut.