The House Sitter's Secret

By Thomas Decker

Three simple rules. One deadly mistake.

Clara is desperate. Drowning in debt and running from a toxic past, she needs a lifeline and she needs it fast. When she's offered a lucrative, months long house sitting gig in a hyper exclusive, isolated gated community, it feels like an answered prayer.

The pay is astronomical. The sprawling mansion is fully stocked. But the absentee owners have left her with three strict conditions:

Do not enter the basement.

Do not speak to the neighbors.

Do not leave the property.

At first, Clara is more than happy to lock the heavy doors and hide from the world. But the longer she stays, the more the isolation chips away at her fragile nerves. The house feels too pristine, almost as if no one has ever actually lived there. As she begins finding strange, unsettling anomalies hidden throughout the immaculate rooms, Clara decides to break a rule and look into the wealthy family who hired her.

What she discovers turns her dream job into a living nightmare: the family doesn't exist.

Clara soon realizes she isn't just a house sitter. She's a pawn in a meticulously staged trap. Cut off from the outside world and unsure of what is real and what is her own mounting paranoia, Clara must uncover the dark purpose behind the empty house before whoever lured her there comes to spring the trap.

From author Thomas Decker comes The House Sitter's Secret, a pulse pounding psychological thriller packed with suffocating suspense, an unreliable narrator, and a twist you will never see coming.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFTK17YL
• ISBN13: 9798193348412
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"