The Guest House.

By D Roy

She was hired to watch someone else's house. She never expected to find someone else's secret. Marlowe Reyes takes house-sitting jobs the way other people take vacations - quietly, alone, and under a name that isn't really hers. Six weeks on an empty stretch of California coastline should be easy money and easier silence. Then she finds a photograph hidden behind a bookshelf: a laughing woman standing in front of the estate's guest house - the one building she's been warned, twice, never to enter. She has no idea yet, someone has written on the back. A dead phone hidden behind a false panel. A padlock installed after something went wrong. A settlement letter built to keep one woman's name out of a courtroom forever. The longer Marlowe stays, the clearer it becomes: the last person who lived in that guest house never really left - and the family who owns this estate has spent six months making sure no one ever finds out why. But Marlowe has spent eleven months learning exactly how far people will go to disappear. And the closer she gets to the truth about the missing woman, the more she starts to wonder if someone is about to do the same thing to her. A slow-burn psychological thriller about the secrets we bury in the houses we love - and the strangers we let inside them.Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Ruth Ware, and B.A. Paris.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJBHDDKJ
• ISBN13: 9798172575778
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"