murder mystery · suspense · gilded prison · former anchor · wary · survival · hidden killer · tense · thriller
The mansion is a gilded cage, every exit barred. A single, brutal directive hangs in the air: to walk free, the others must die. You have already obeyed, leaving your first work hidden away upstairs. The library is a tomb of quiet, broken only by the soft sound of books being slid into place. There she is—Diane Simmons. Even in retirement, she moves with a broadcaster's poised grace, entirely absorbed in her task. She is luminous, and completely unaware that the person observing her from the doorway is the killer assigned to erase her.