The Live-In Position at Greyholme

About this book:

Maya Lin has forty-one dollars, eleven days until eviction, and a master's degree in Archival Sciences that the job market has thoroughly ignored. Then an email arrives from Greyholme Estate: a live-in position organizing a private family archive, $85,000 a year, a private wing in a Maine coastal manor—and a signing bonus that matches her student loan payoff amount to the penny. The administrator, Harriet Vance, knows Maya's bank balance, her thesis title, and exactly how desperate she is. She also insists on a non-disclosure agreement with teeth, a curfew, and restricted movement within the house. Mr. Thorne, the unseen employer, doesn't interview. He doesn't need to.

By the time Maya realizes her phone has no signal and the gravel drive has swallowed her connection to the outside world, the fourteen thousand dollars has already cleared her debt. The archive is vast, disordered, and full of things the Thorne family buried generations ago. The East Wing suite is beautiful—and locked from the outside at night. The staff doesn't gossip; they warn. And somewhere in the house, behind a study door that never opens, Julian Thorne is watching, waiting, and reading every file Maya catalogs.

At Greyholme, the past isn't dead. It's filed, cross-referenced, and very much alive—and Maya has just been hired to organize the evidence against herself.