I Became the Maid of My Enemies
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Emily Fields never meant to become a killer.
She was twenty-two when she stabbed a man eleven times behind the bar where she worked. She remembered the first strike. She never remembered the other ten.
Seven months later, the victim suddenly withdrew the charges without explanation.
With nowhere to go and only forty-one dollars to her name, Emily accepts an offer that sounds too good to refuse: become the live-in maid and companion of a wealthy widow at an isolated estate.
The job is simple.
Take care of the old woman.
But the Holloway estate is full of things that don't make sense.
Emily starts waking in parts of the house she has been forbidden to enter, with no memory of how she got there. She finds old photographs that leave her with a strange sense that she has seen them before. The widow watches her with an unsettling familiarity, as though Emily's arrival has been expected for much longer than she realizes.
Then there are the widow's three sons.
Max likes to watch her.
Will can't stop touching her.
And Finn avoids her so completely that Emily begins to wonder what he is afraid will happen if he gets too close.
Emily has spent most of her life believing her story began when she was found and taken into care. No family she could remember. No real answers about where she came from.
But someone inside the Holloway estate seems to know.
And as Emily begins digging into the family's secrets, she realizes everyone around her has been hiding something... including herself.
Because the greatest mystery isn't simply what happened before she ended up in the orphanage.
It's why she can't remember any of it.
She was twenty-two when she stabbed a man eleven times behind the bar where she worked. She remembered the first strike. She never remembered the other ten.
Seven months later, the victim suddenly withdrew the charges without explanation.
With nowhere to go and only forty-one dollars to her name, Emily accepts an offer that sounds too good to refuse: become the live-in maid and companion of a wealthy widow at an isolated estate.
The job is simple.
Take care of the old woman.
But the Holloway estate is full of things that don't make sense.
Emily starts waking in parts of the house she has been forbidden to enter, with no memory of how she got there. She finds old photographs that leave her with a strange sense that she has seen them before. The widow watches her with an unsettling familiarity, as though Emily's arrival has been expected for much longer than she realizes.
Then there are the widow's three sons.
Max likes to watch her.
Will can't stop touching her.
And Finn avoids her so completely that Emily begins to wonder what he is afraid will happen if he gets too close.
Emily has spent most of her life believing her story began when she was found and taken into care. No family she could remember. No real answers about where she came from.
But someone inside the Holloway estate seems to know.
And as Emily begins digging into the family's secrets, she realizes everyone around her has been hiding something... including herself.
Because the greatest mystery isn't simply what happened before she ended up in the orphanage.
It's why she can't remember any of it.

















































