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Billionaire
drama
Survival
Suspense
Thriller
Villain

Ivy Calloway spent five years in prison for killing a man who was beating his wife half to death. She doesn't regret it. But no one hires an ex-convict, so when a maid staffing agency offers her a live-in position in the coldest, most beautiful house she's ever seen, she takes it without asking questions. She should have asked questions. Her new employer is Damian Cross... a billionaire with a charming public face and a private one that makes Ivy's skin crawl. His wife, Selene, is soft-spoken, elegant, and always just a little too interested in Ivy's past. Ivy tells herself it's kindness. It isn't. Selene has been counting on a woman exactly like Ivy walking through her door... someone who's already proven she'll kill a man who hurts a woman. Then Julian Cross arrives. Damian's estranged brother, sharp-eyed and impossible to read, asking questions about the Cross family that no one wants answered. Ivy doesn't know if he's there to save her or use her too. All she knows is that every time he looks at her, she forgets to be careful. As the walls of the Cross mansion close in... a locked wing, a six-year-old girl who flinches at loud voices, a wife with a plan Ivy never agreed to... Ivy has to decide who's telling the truth before someone else's blood ends up on her hands. This time, she might not walk away.

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Marked For The MaidThe First Lie Ivy Catches

"Call your accountant," Ivy said. "Now. Before whoever's watching decides you shouldn't have the cha

Marked For The MaidJulian's Real Reason

Ivy didn't wait to think it through. She turned back down the stairs, phone still lit in her hand, a

Marked For The MaidA Favor Ivy Didn't Agree To

"I need to think," Ivy said, pulling her arm free of Selene's grip, gentle but firm. "Both of you ha

Marked For The MaidSelene's Gratitude, Too Warm

Ivy's hand closed around the envelope before Damian had made it two steps toward the stairs."What is

Marked For The MaidDamian's Cold Apology

Ivy didn't let go. "I'm coming with you.""I wasn't asking.""Neither was I." She held his gaze, stead

Marked For The MaidIvy Steps In

"Where's the study?" Ivy was already on her feet. "Is that where he is?""I don't know." Selene's voi

Marked For The MaidMia In The Closet

"Tell me," Ivy said. "Now. All of it."Regina glanced once more at the empty lot, then stepped fully

Marked For The MaidA Night Of Raised Voices

Nobody came. The door stayed shut, footsteps fading somewhere far off toward the study, and after a

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Chương 1 Released
"Calloway. You're up."
Ivy didn't move right away. Five years of being told when to stand, when to si
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Chương 2 The Car Is Home Now
She didn't sleep, not really. She dozed in stretches, the way she'd learned to in her cell, where re
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Chương 3 No One Hires A Killer
"I'm gonna be straight with you." The manager slid her application back across the counter like it h
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Chương 4 The Agency That Doesn't Ask
The footsteps stopped in the doorway.
"Selene. You didn't tell me we had company." His voice was warm
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Chương 5 The House On The Hill
The folder was thin. Ivy stood there a long moment, listening for footsteps, before she let herself
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Chương 6 Meeting Selene
She told herself it wasn't her place. She told herself twice, walking down the back stairs, and a th
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Chương 7 The Husband's Smile
Dinner for staff was at six, a long table in a kitchen that still smelled faintly of someone else's
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Chương 8 First Night In The Staff Wing
The room didn't lock from the inside.
Ivy noticed that first, before she noticed anything else… no bo
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Chương 9 Rules Of The House
Ivy grabbed the cart and moved.
She didn't run… running would have meant something, would have given
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Chương 10 Mia In The Hallway
"My name?" Ivy kept her voice as level as she could manage, crouched now to Mia's height, the stairw
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Chương 11 A Voice Behind A Door
Chapter 11: A Voice Behind a Door
"I don't know what kind of person I am to you yet either," Ivy said
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Chương 12 The Wrong Kind Of Quiet
"I already told you what I saw." Ivy kept her voice low, aware of how close they still stood to the
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Chương 13 Damian Notices Her
"Selene… " Ivy knocked a third time, harder, her shoulder nearly against the wood.
The shoe moved.
Not
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Chương 14 Selene's Questions
Ivy didn't touch the envelope. "I'd rather not take money for something I don't understand."
"That's
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Chương 15 What The File Doesn't Say
Ivy pulled her hand back, slow, careful not to make it look like a flinch even though that's exactly
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Chương 16 A Bruise, Explained Away
Ivy didn't sleep after that. She sat with the note in her lap until the gray light came back to the
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Chương 17 The Locked Wing
"No one gave me anything," Ivy said.
The lie came out steadier than she expected, though something in
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Chương 18 Ivy's Old Life, Uninvited
"That's not possible." Ivy's voice came out thinner than she meant it to. "I met Renee at my apartme
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Chương 19 Dinner With The Crosses
Nobody moved for a long second. Then Damian stepped inside and closed the door behind him, slow, del
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Chương 20 The Way He Watches Selene
The table went silent except for Mia's small, oblivious humming, spoon clinking against her plate.
Iv
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Chương 21 A Kindness With A Price
Selene didn't sit. She stood there, Mia's hand still gripped tight in hers, chest rising fast, caugh
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Chương 22 Julian Cross Arrives
"Then tell me how you found out about all of this," Ivy said. "Because you didn't just show up here
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Chương 23 The Brother No One Mentions
Julian was already moving before Ivy fully registered. She'd stood up too, both of them taking the b
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Chương 24 Damian's Mask Slips
Ivy read the message four times before she made herself put the phone down.
*Ask Julian about the fir
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Chương 25 Ivy and Julian, First Words
She found him leaning against a truck by the garage, not the sleek car she expected from a Cross, so
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Chương 26 Selene's Warning
"Show me the messages," Julian said.
Ivy pulled out her phone, scrolled to the text from the night be
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Chương 27 What Happened Five Years Ago
"I need you to slow down," Ivy said, though her own pulse was racing just as fast. "Where would he t
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Chương 28 The Man She Killed
"Stay down," Ivy whispered, pressing Mia lower behind the hedge. "Stay down and don't make a sound,
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Chương 29 Why Ivy Doesn't Regret It
He didn't run at them. That was the strange part… Damian simply stood there, still as the hedges aro
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Chương 30 Julian Asks The Wrong Question
Julian's truck came around the side of the house a minute later, tires cutting fast across the grass
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Chương 31 A Night Of Raised Voices
Nobody came. The door stayed shut, footsteps fading somewhere far off toward the study, and after a
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Chương 32 Mia In The Closet
"Tell me," Ivy said. "Now. All of it."
Regina glanced once more at the empty lot, then stepped fully
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Chương 33 Ivy Steps In
"Where's the study?" Ivy was already on her feet. "Is that where he is?"
"I don't know." Selene's voi
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Chương 34 Damian's Cold Apology
Ivy didn't let go. "I'm coming with you."
"I wasn't asking."
"Neither was I." She held his gaze, stead
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Chương 35 Selene's Gratitude, Too Warm
Ivy's hand closed around the envelope before Damian had made it two steps toward the stairs.
"What is
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Chương 36 A Favor Ivy Didn't Agree To
"I need to think," Ivy said, pulling her arm free of Selene's grip, gentle but firm. "Both of you ha
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Chương 37 Julian's Real Reason
Ivy didn't wait to think it through. She turned back down the stairs, phone still lit in her hand, a
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Chương 38 The First Lie Ivy Catches
"Call your accountant," Ivy said. "Now. Before whoever's watching decides you shouldn't have the cha
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