The Turn of the Key
Description
When she stumbles across the ad, sheâs looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to missâa live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smittenâby the luxurious âsmartâ home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family.
What she doesnât know is that sheâs stepping into a nightmareâone that will end with a child dead and herself awaiting trial for murder.
Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the events that led to her incarceration. It wasnât just the constant surveillance from the homeâs cameras, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasnât just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasnât even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman.
It was everything.
She knows sheâs made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasnât always ideal. Sheâs not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, sheâs not guiltyâat least not of murderâbut somebody is.