The Babysitter's Last Message

The babysitter vanished twelve years ago. Tonight, her message arrives.

Claire Mercer remembers the night Leah Ward disappeared. Her four-year-old daughter was asleep upstairs. Her husband said he had driven Leah to a bus stop.

Leah never came home.

For twelve years, Claire believed her husband's account. Then an unknown number sends her a recording-and a frightened voice she recognizes immediately.

"If he tells you I got on a bus, don't believe him."

The message mentions her daughter's red coat. Warns her about Bell House. And turns an ordinary evening into the beginning of a nightmare.

As Claire searches for answers, she uncovers a family skilled at making uncomfortable questions disappear. The people she trusted have explanations for everything.

But their explanations are changing.

Now Bell House is scheduled for demolition, her teenage daughter is caught between love and suspicion, and someone wants Claire to stop asking questions.

Leah tried to tell her something that night.

This time, Claire is listening.

Set in a Virginia river town, The Babysitter's Last Message is a chilling domestic suspense story about a missing young woman, a mother's unraveling marriage, and the devastating cost of protecting a family's secrets.