The nanny knows the missing girl didn't run — because she helped hide her.

> Wren Calloway takes live-in nanny placements because they ask nothing about her past — a closed door, a paycheck, a clean slate. The Ashford house, alone on a lake in the Adirondacks, should have been the quietest job of her career. Instead, sixteen-year-old Nora Ashford vanishes from her bedroom in the middle of the night, and nothing about the family's story adds up.

> The father is frantic on camera and cold in the kitchen. The mother won't meet anyone's eyes — except Wren's. And the room at the top of the back stairs, the one Wren was told was sealed for renovation, has a fresh footprint in the dust.

> Told in a dual timeline that moves between the search and the eight weeks that led to it, **The Nanny's Room** is a fast-paced psychological thriller about the secrets inside a single household — a missing girl mystery, a single mother's impossible choice, and a live-in nanny who has kept a secret like this before, and knows exactly what it costs.

> **Perfect for readers who love:** domestic thrillers, psychological suspense, nanny suspense books, missing girl mysteries, dual timeline thrillers, single-sitting short reads, and series starters they can binge one household at a time.

> A fast, tense one-sitting read — the first entry in the Halloway Placements, where every book is a new standalone mystery in a new household.

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