ŷ������

I absolutely devoured this book with a chilling, sinister feel throughout! A story told through the images of a small child will catch your attention quickly. I was drawn into it and cannot get iout of my mind that emotional, unforgettable ending. This rates high for its originality and the fantastic narrator Suzy Jackson made it even more compelling!!

Mallory at 21 years old is an avid runner who suffered an injury while in high school and became highly addicted to Oxycontin. After her recovery, Russell, her sponsor, gives her the address of a family in the fluent neighborhood Spring Brook, New Jersey to apply for their nanny position. She meets Ted and Caroline and their charming five year old boy, Teddy and his imaginary friend, Anya. With the promise to stay clean and weekly drug tests, she is hired and moves into their pool cottage behind the house. She becomes attached to the family even after weird confrontational vibes are given.

When Teddy begins sketching very detailed, complex and sinister drawings, everything changes. She shares the drawings with the cute lawn boy Adrian and they sleuth together to find out from several people the house's history in the 1940's. Apparently in an unsolved crime, a woman Annie Barrett was murdered in the 1940's and it appears to be drawings of her death. How is she communicating with him?