Nanny Needed
A Novel
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- ¥710
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A young woman takes a job as a nanny for an impossibly wealthy family, thinking she’s found her entrée into a better life—only to discover instead she’s walked into a world of deception and dark secrets.
“Wild, unpredictable, and utterly absorbing, Nanny Needed is a gasp-out-loud thriller that will make your head spin.”—Samantha M. Bailey, #1 bestselling author of Woman on the Edge
Nanny needed. Discretion is of the utmost importance. Special conditions apply.
When Sarah Larsen finds the notice, posted on creamy card stock in her building’s lobby, one glance at the exclusive address tells her she’s found her ticket out of a dead-end job—and life.
At the interview, the job seems like a dream come true: a glamorous penthouse apartment on the Upper West Side of NYC; a salary that adds several zeroes to her current income; the beautiful, worldly mother of her charge, who feels more like a friend than a potential boss. She’s overjoyed when she’s offered the position and signs the NDA without a second thought.
But in retrospect, the notice in her lobby was less an engraved invitation than a waving red flag. For there is something very strange about the Bird family. Why does the beautiful Mrs. Bird never leave the apartment alone? And what happened to the nanny before Sarah? It soon becomes clear that the Birds’ odd behaviors are more than the eccentricities of the wealthy.
But by then it’s too late for Sarah to seek help. After all, discretion is of the utmost importance.
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Manhattan's mega-wealthy, immensely private Bird family needs help—just not the kind Sarah Larsen, the narrator of this off-putting, overly contrived psychological thriller from Cross (The Missing Woman), anticipates when she interviews with chic mom Collette and charming adult stepson Stephen for the extremely discreet nanny position they've advertised. Drowning in debt from her aunt's final illness, on top of bills her and her fiancé's waitstaff earnings can't even dent, Sarah is so eager for the suspiciously well-paying post that it doesn't faze her that she hasn't actually met almost-four-year-old Patty before accepting. When Sarah discovers the true nature of her role in the family's dangerous ongoing psychodrama—one which would send any sane person sprinting in the opposite direction—it's too late; she's signed an ironclad contract and NDAs, which Stephen makes clear the clan intends to enforce. And from there things only get worse as she struggles to escape an increasingly noxious situation. For readers who forge on, the dubious rewards that await are even more preposterous final twists. This is for those for whom nothing is too implausible.
