SUMMER LOCATION-Book Club #53: The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

Come join us for our first summer book club of 2025 in the park! We will discuss this great thriller by Freida McFadden!

Schedule:
6:30- 7:00pm - Arrival, chatting + catch up + BYOB (though I try to bring something for everyone to enjoy!)
7:00pm - Book talk beings
Never worry if you are running late, you are welcome to come join whenever you can make it.

Location- The Pavilion at Cheesman Park (Look for a big blue blanket by the white pavilion in the middle of the park.)
*use Google Maps if having trouble in Apple Maps*

Parking: Parking can sometimes be tricky. I have found there is great parking on E 11th Ave.

Lost? Call or text: 303-253-4916

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The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…

Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.

I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.

They don’t know what I’m capable of…

An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!

By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come bubbling to the surface.

Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them... and what they will leave behind.