Teen Screams 9: The Babysitter
Madison Grover-Rodrigo came to Louisville for a fresh start.
New house. New school. New city. No more being defined by what happened back home.
So when a wealthy family inside the gated community of Ashbourne offers her thirty dollars an hour to babysit their newborn son, Madison sees the perfect opportunity to start saving for a car-and maybe finally build a life that feels normal.
Then another Ashbourne family calls.
And another.
Soon Madison is caring for newborns in nine different homes, each protected by private security, smart-home systems, strict rules, and parents who seem to know far more about her than they should.
Every house watches.
Every family documents.
And every nursery seems connected to something hidden beneath Ashbourne's polished streets.
With the help of her sharp-tongued new friend Zuri and Scott Hardy, the boy next door whose own family may be closer to Ashbourne's secrets than he realizes, Madison begins uncovering a pattern stretching back more than a century-a history of teenage babysitters, newborn children, missing records, underground passages, and a symbol that keeps appearing wherever someone is watching:
an empty cradle beneath an eight-pointed gold star.
By Halloween night, Madison is no longer asking why nine families hired the same babysitter.
She is asking what they were preparing her for.
And when the masks finally come on, Ashbourne will make one thing terrifyingly clear:
Madison was never just hired to watch the children.
She was chosen to witness.
TEEN SCREAMS 9: THE BABYSITTER is a dark YA horror thriller about surveillance, inherited power, family secrets, and one teenager trapped inside a tradition that has been waiting for her long before she ever arrived.
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