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Chapter 14: The Kitchen and the Blood (Part 2) She stopped. Nicco watched her with one eyebrow slightly raised. “Miss Craven.” “Yes?” “I don’t eat.” Emma blinked. “What do you mean, you don’t eat? Eve...

Chapter 13: The Kitchen and the Blood (Part 1) Emma Craven’s second official day at Ross Manor began with fewer broken vases and more determination. Mrs. Whitmore had woken her with a gentle knock on ...

Chapter 4: The Debt and the Sale (Part 4) Emma adjusted her posture, squared her shoulders, and took her first real step down the ground-floor corridor. The black-and-white marble beneath her sneakers...

Chapter 12: First Day on the Job (Part 6) Emma looked up, surprised. “Thank you. I… like words. They’re easier to control than vases.” Mrs. Whitmore almost, almost smiled. Almost. “Go. Before I regret...

Chapter 11: First Day at Work (Part 5) “I'm finished.” The housekeeper held out her hand. Emma handed over the notepad. The woman read it in silence, her expression shifting from resignation to someth...

Chapter 10: First Day on the Job (Part 4) Emma Craven sat at the large kitchen table, pen in hand, a sheet of cream-colored paper in front of her, and her second cup of coffee already half-empty. Mrs....

Chapter 2: The Debt and the Sale (Part 2) That night, the family home was filled with a heavy silence. Her mother cried in the bathroom with the faucet running. Her brother pretended to study, but Emm...

Chapter 9: First Day on the Job (Part 3) Nicco ran a hand over his face as if trying to suppress a sigh. “That vase,” he finally said, “was from the eighteenth century. Qing Dynasty. Blue and white. O...

Chapter 7: First Day on the Job (Part 1) Emma Craven’s imaginary alarm clock went off at six-thirty in the morning in the form of a persistent bird that had decided to sing right outside her bedroom w...

Chapter 8: First Day on the Job (Part 2) The silence that followed was deafening. Emma stood frozen, the feather duster still in her hand, her mouth hanging open, her heart pounding so hard she was ce...