Some summer jobs are boring. Others change your life.
This one could end it.
After failing at college and work, Cleo feels like a disappointment to
her parents and is desperate for a new start. She’s fat, shy, and broke.
How will she ever get a car and the freedom she dreams of?
Then she finds a summer nanny job that could earn her a car and
respect. She’ll help watch five kids in a house by a small-town graveyard
while their widower dad finishes his work project. Easy, right?
Except this family is unlike any she’s ever known. While the dad rarely
leaves his home office, Cleo tells herself the household’s strict, strange
rules are not bad, just different.
But the longer she stays, the stranger things get.
The kids are named after people from town, her boss adopts another
child-as one goes missing, and the previous nannies have left early-
yet no one knows where they went.
Are there logical explanations? Or are her knotted stomach and
nightmares warning her? If she can trust her instincts, they are
screaming to her that she and the kids are in danger.
Cleo won’t abandon these kids, even if saving them means stepping
straight into her worst nightmare. Can she survive the summer?
Or will she become one more buried family secret?
