It’s urgent, she feels, that she find out who - or what - is causing the nightly disturbances. The only thing of which she is certain is that the situation is becoming more dire with each passing day. Something is going on in the house, she knows, but she doesn’t know what. Rich in occurrence for which these are no logical explanations.Īs the days pass, Rowan’s relationship with the girls seems to strengthen, but her concerns only continue to grow. The nights - which should be quiet in this rural house - are full of sounds that can’t be explained. Under the cloak of darkness - when all is quiet and still and the world is at its most creepy - strange things keep happening. Maddie and Ellie, the two older children, don’t warm to Rowan quickly, making tending to them while handling a baby difficult - Read: Totally fucking impossible.īut the unruliness of the children isn’t Rowan’s only problem.Īnother complication presents at night, long after the children have been tucked into their beds, while Rowan is trying to partake in a hard-earned period of rest.įrom the evening she arrives, Rowan’s nights are restless. As it would turn out, Sandra and Bill have burned through a series of nannies in the last year or so, making it difficult for the couple - really, for Sandra - to keep up with the rigors of work.Įager to make a good impression, Rowan keeps the reservations she has about their imminent departure to herself and tries her best to cozy up to the children who will soon be in her solo charge.Īs you would likely expect, things don’t immediately go swimmingly.
Her new boss, Sandra - who co-owns an architectural firm with her husband, Bill - informs Rowan that she will be left alone with the children the very next day. When Rowan arrives, however, she isn’t given long to settle in.
Much to her initial delight, she’s selected from what must have been a sizable pool of candidates, to fill the post. So she, daunted by neither the seclusion nor the heavy workload, applied. Whether our protagonist, Rowan, liked children or not, she certainly had more than enough experience with them to recommend her for this job.
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