When Mara's husband asks if his old college friend can stay in their guest room for a week after a messy divorce, she says yes before she has time to think about it.
By the third night, she's certain of something impossible: Julian has been in her house before. He reaches for drawers before he's told what's in them. He takes her mug, her actual mug, without asking. He knows which floorboard creaks.
Over seven nights, Mara stops being afraid of the stranger in her guest room and starts being afraid of what her husband has never told her about the house they live in, and the padlocked door in the basement he's always called "just storage."
Six years ago, a girl left a party in that same backyard and was never seen again. What Mara finds behind that door will finally answer why, and cost her the version of her marriage she thought she knew.
A tight, one-house, one-week thriller about the rooms we never think to ask about, until someone else already knows exactly what's inside them.
