She came to the house to find her missing sister.
Now the family is trying to make her disappear too.
Nora Wynn has one chance to find out what happened to her sister, Tessa.
Six months ago, Tessa took a live-in job at Hale House, the beautiful Surrey home of the wealthy Morant family. Then she vanished.
The Morants say Tessa stole from them and ran.
Nora knows they are lying.
Using a false name, Nora takes Tessa’s old position inside the house. At first, Hale House looks perfect. The flowers are fresh, the rooms are spotless, and Elise Morant is all soft smiles and careful kindness. But behind the locked doors and polished manners, Nora finds traces her sister left behind.
A coat in a wardrobe.
A hidden receipt.
A child who knows more than she should.
A forbidden room no one is allowed to enter.
The deeper Nora digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because the Morants do not need to kill the women who threaten them.
They only need to make them unbelievable.
As Nora’s identity, sanity and freedom are slowly stripped away, she must decide how far she is willing to go to expose a family protected by money, reputation and lies.
But Hale House has erased women before.
And this time, it has chosen Nora.
The Woman in the East Room is the first book in the Nora Wynn thriller series: a gripping, women-led psychological thriller about secrets, betrayal, gaslighting, and the terrifying power of being believed too late.
