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Content snapshot
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Violence
Barely any
Minimal physical violence; sinister threat and dark atmosphere
Language
Some
Some strong language and crude descriptions
Sexual Content
A lot
Graphic opening description of sexual services rendered; frank sexual content in early pages
Substance Use
Barely any
Casual reference to substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Unreliable narrator, psychological manipulation, gaslit reality, and deeply ambiguous conclusion
What this book is about
An unnamed narrator who earns money through psychic readings and sexual services gets hired to cleanse a woman's Victorian house, where the client's unsettling stepson and mounting dread suggest the haunting may be real — or a brilliant manipulation. Flynn's compressed novella delivers a full twist in under 100 pages.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Explicit sexual content at opening
Psychological manipulation
Unreliable narrator
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