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When Sarah Larsen answers the Bird family’s advertisement, her life changes overnight. The job seems like a dream come true: nannying in a glamorous penthouse apartment with a salary that adds several zeroes to her current income. Sarah signs the contract binding her to complete secrecy without a second thought. These are important people, after all—they can't be too careful about who they let into their home. All is well until events in Sarah’s life begin to take a sinister turn and the trail leads back to the Birds.

Once there was a girl with a heart as black as night.... Or so legend goes. But I know better. Grown in the Night Witch's garden and tasked with softening the souls of men, the dream spells I spin keep the women of earth safe. Without it, they would be as miserable (and damaged) as my mother.

It took months for me to trust that Rachel - the imaginary “friend” who’d hurt me as a child - was gone, years to convince myself I was just a sick kid with an overactive imagination. But I finally did it. I pulled it together, got well, and I never looked back. On the day our school bus is knocked off an overpass, I’m just an average teen obsessed with becoming a professional dancer. Now, suddenly my childhood tormentor is back and I’m on the run from Rachel and men-in-black types who want me dead.