When fifteen-year-old Sam is placed with a new foster guardian in a remote seaside town, she tries to silence the voice in her head that insists something is wrong. Her new home—a sprawling, decaying mansion—creaks with secrets, and Miss Parr, her enigmatic carer, seems more puppet master than protector.

 

The house is cold. The rules are strict. And the cat, Artemis, watches her like it knows something she doesn’t.

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Sam tells herself it’s just trauma. Just her mind playing tricks. But the dolls in the nursery move when no one’s looking. The rooms change shape. And the whispers in the night call her by name.

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