The Safe Place: A Novel Spiral-Bound | August 3, 2021

Superbly tense and oozing with atmosphere, Anna Downes’ debut The Safe Place is perfect summer suspense, and a deft examination of the lengths we'll go to protect the facade of a perfect life.

Welcome to paradise . . . will you ever be able to leave?

EMILY IS A MESS: Emily Proudman just lost her acting agent, her job, and her apartment in one miserable day.

EMILY IS DESPERATE: Scott Denny, a successful and charismatic CEO, has a problem that neither his business acumen nor his vast wealth can fix. Until he meets Emily.

EMILY IS PERFECT: Scott offers Emily a summer job as a housekeeper on his remote, beautiful French estate. Enchanted by his lovely wife, Nina, and his eccentric young daughter, Aurelia, Emliy falls headlong into this oasis of wine-soaked days by the pool. But soon Emily realizes that Scott and Nina are hiding dangerous secrets, and if she doesn't play along, the consequences could be deadly.

A compelling collision of Lisa Jewell’s morally complex family dynamics and Ruth Ware’s modern gothic vibes, The Safe Place is a deliciously sinister suspense novel that will also have you longing for wine-soaked summer days in a French villa by the sea.