The Family Account

Katie West knows how to fix a family. Not the real family. The version the public sees.

Before the leak that destroyed her career, Katie made rich people's scandals sound smaller, softer, and easier to survive. Now she is broke, disgraced, and desperate enough to accept a private job at Kelwick House, home of the Harrows.

Seven years ago, seventeen-year-old Olivia Harrow vanished from that house. No body. No goodbye. Only one final post telling people not to look for her.

Now a streaming documentary is coming, and the Harrows want Katie living under their roof until it airs.

The rules are simple. No personal phone. No contact with the film crew. No speaking to the youngest son about Olivia. And never, ever enter the locked room at the end of the west corridor.

Then, on Katie's first night, Olivia's account posts for the first time in seven years.

It is a photograph of Katie asleep.

The caption reads: She's in my room.

As the account begins releasing secrets from inside the house, Katie realises she was not hired to save the Harrows. She was hired because someone already knows her part in Olivia's story.

Seven years ago, Katie helped make the first lie sound believable. Now someone wants her to write the last one.