The Missing Au Pair

The City of Lights above, the darkness of evil below…

“Dark, gripping, and impossible to put down”—Los Angeles Book Review

In 1985, Kelly Burke has spent the past year working as an au pair in Paris after finally summoning the courage to take the first step toward her dream of becoming a French teacher. No more grinding away at two jobs back in the United States to support her freeloading mother and brother. No more living with the ghost of her murdered best friend.

But when her classmate and fellow au pair, Erin, goes missing, Kelly worries history is repeating itself. She wasn’t able to help her friend back home. She at least has to try to help Erin.

Seeking a second year in the program, she requests an assignment with the same family for whom Erin worked. Were they, or anyone else in the building, involved in her disappearance?

The deeper Kelly looks, the more dangerous her probing becomes, and soon she falls prey to a terrifying scheme, deep within the Paris underground.

Content warning: This novel contains a few scenes of violence that might be disturbing to some readers.