Anna Downes Bücher

Emily erhält von ihrem Chef Scott ein großartiges Angebot: Er lädt sie ein, in sein Familienanwesen an der französischen Küste zu ziehen. Dort soll sie Scotts Ehefrau Nina als Kindermädchen für Aurelia zur Hand gehen. Überbordender Luxus erwartet Emily auf Querencia , die anmutige Nina betört mit ihrem Charme und laue Abende am Pool verstreichen in sommerlicher Unbeschwertheit. Doch der perfekte Schein trügt. Zunächst verschließt Emily die Augen vor den Ungereimtheiten, die nicht ins Bild der makellosen Familie passen wollen. Aber im Haus geht Unerklärliches vor sich. Scott und Nina verbergen etwas. Aurelia ist kein normales Kind. Emily beginnt Fragen zu stellen – und erkennt zu spät, welche Rolle sie in diesem heimtückischen Spiel hat …

Extraordinarily tense and deliciously mysterious, Anna Downes's The Shadow House follows one woman's desperate journey to protect her children at any cost, in a remote place where not everything is as it seems. A HOUSE WITH DEADLY SECRETS. A MOTHER WHO'LL RISK EVERYTHING TO BRING THEM TO LIGHT. Alex, a single mother-of-two, is determined to make a fresh start for her and her children. In an effort to escape her troubled past, she seeks refuge in a rural community. Pine Ridge is idyllic; the surrounding forests are beautiful and the locals welcoming. Mostly. But Alex finds that she may have disturbed barely hidden secrets in her new home. As a chain of bizarre events is set off, events eerily familiar to those who have lived there for years, Alex realizes that she and her family might be in greater danger than ever before. And that the only way to protect them all is to confront the shadows lurking in Pine Ridge.

On the Coral Coast of Western Australia, solo traveller Katy is on a mission to find her free-spirited sister, Phoebe, who disappeared along the same route a year ago. But as she drives her campervan further into the wild north, Katy realises she's not as alone as she'd first believed. Soon she is pulled into a complicated web of secrets, lies, myths and stories that force her to question everything she thought she knew about her sister. In this nerve-shredding outback thriller, our obsessions with freedom and beauty collide with our fear of what lies in the wilderness, and the truth behind Phoebe's disappearance proves stranger and darker than Katy could ever have guessed.