The Spare Room is a hauntingly, juicy story which makes for the best kind of beach read! Its incredibly creative premise and shocking twists and turns will have you enthralled from beginning to end.
Set during the pandemic, Kelly and her fiancée Mike have been in lockdown together in Philadelphia. But when Mike suddenly decides he thinks they should postpone their wedding which they have been planning, Kelly not only doesn’t understand, but feels trapped having to stay with this man she thought she knew so well and wanted to spend her life with.
So, when a famous writer, Sabrina, a friend of Kelly’s from high school who she had reconnected with during lockdown offers the spare room at her and her husband Nathan’s secluded mansion in Virginia she jumps at the chance to get away from Mike. She and her cat Virgo hop on the next train.
On arriving, Sabrina can’t believe her luck! The grounds are lavish, the rooms gorgeous and Sabrina and Nathan are so helpful, understanding and kind. She and Virgo settle in nicely. Then, one night after a bit of too much drinking something happens to them Kelly never in her wildest dreams could ever imagine.
Kelly falls hard for this new type of relationship. This is just what she needs to take her mind of her Mike problems. But when she discovers she has not been the first woman to have been invited into their relationship and worse, the woman before her is missing, she begins to become nervous and confused.
She tries to rationalize the reason the woman is missing but keeps finding clues that not everything was as it seemed in the prior relationship with Sabrina and Nathan. But when a neighbor warns her about the couple, she realizes she has to find a way out. Something had to have happened that they are not telling her.
As things go from bad to worse, Kelly begins to think she will be the next person to disappear. How could she have left the only good relationship she has ever had for something this sinister? How does she leave without them catching on as to why. She must figure out a plan to get away!
The Spare Room grabs you from the first page and is an exciting and sensational read with shocking pivots in the story which will keep the reader captivated much like Kelly seems to be, with a jaw dropping ending you never would expect!
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