Review:
Millie has been living in her car since she was let go from her previous job, and she's desperate for work. When she interviews for a position as the Winchester family's housemaid, she figures she won't make it past the background check. But somehow she does.
Unfortunately, Nina Winchester, who was perfect and welcoming during the interview, becomes an absolute nightmare after Millie is hired. Nina somehow manages to make massive messes in short periods of time, and she seems ready to blame Millie for everything. Her young daughter is a spoiled brat.
The job provides Millie with a room of her own, but it's a tiny, stuffy space in the attic, and for some reason it only locks from the outside. The job's one saving grace is Andrew Winchester, Nina's husband. Millie has no idea how Nina managed to get a great guy like him to fall in love with her, but he's a loving and attentive husband, clearly better than Nina deserves. Millie finds herself falling for him, but she knows he'd be horrified if he knew her secret, the reason why this horrible job is her very last chance at something like a decent life.
I try to keep thrillers on hand for when I'm in the mood. This was an impulse purchase that I knew would probably have issues, but I wanted to give it a shot anyway.
Quite a few aspects of this were very predictable. At the same time, it was also incredibly stupid. There is absolutely no way that the ending would have worked out as nicely as it did. Millie certainly wasn't smart enough or careful enough for the stuff that happened in the epilogue to actually go well.
And Evelyn. Ugh! It made no sense that she'd say that out loud to someone she didn't even like.
That's all I can say without spoilers. On the plus side, this was definitely the book I needed in order to decompress after the very emotionally complicated book I read just prior to it. The emotions this left me with were not complicated at all.
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