NATIONAL BESTSELLER · OPTIONED FOR NETFLIX BY A PRODUCER OF THE BATMAN GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER “I loved it." —Stephen King From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son Teddy. Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space goes out for nightly runs and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy a sweet shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees rabbits balloons. But one day he draws something different: a man in a forest dragging a woman’s lifeless b