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**Everyone on Linden Avenue loves the Hales. That is what makes them so dangerous.**

Nineteen-year-old Maya Torres works nights at a diner, studies to be a nurse, and is raising her twelve-year-old brother on her own. When her car dies on a dark back road, a kind older couple stops to help.

She wakes up in a basement.

The room is soundproofed. The rules are simple. And Maya is not alone. Dee has been down here for more than a year, scratching a mark on the wall for every day. Behind the bricks, someone else has scratched seven sets of initials.

Upstairs, Martin and Gwen Hale are the nicest couple on their quiet suburban street. They win prizes for their roses. They bring soup to neighbors in the hospital. And Martin keeps a ledger, with a number of days written beside every name.

Maya has ninety days.

To survive, she will have to find the cracks in the perfect marriage above her head. And if she ever gets out, she will have to decide whether she can leave Dee behind.

Outside, a detective who will not let the case go and a brother who will not stop looking are getting closer. But the count in Martin's ledger is running out.

*The Girl in the Basement* is a gripping psychological thriller about the monsters who smile at you over the garden fence, and the courage it takes to trust that quiet feeling when something is wrong.