Rowan is in jail for murder, the murder of a child. Claiming innocence, she is writing to a lawyer trying to explain the events that lead to her arrest...
When Rowan lands a dream job as a well paid live-in nanny, she moves into her new employers home, a strange and mysterious house that has been remodeled into a combination of an ultra modern "smart" home while keeping some aspects of the original old Gothic Victorian. The wife and husband she will be working for are workaholic types, architects that must leave town often for business. They have two young daughters, a baby, and a rebellious teenager that spends her week days in a boarding school.
Upon her arrival, she is tossed right in when the parents leave town almost immediately. Rowan must learn to manage the strange house full of cameras and get to know the young girls she will be living with. The girls turn out to be somewhat troubled and a far cry from the perfect children she was lead to believe they were. Rowan must also care for the baby and two large dogs.
She does her best to fit into their lives, when things start to get strange. She discovers a "poison garden" on the property, a decrepit fenced in garden full of poisonous plants created years ago by the former owner, whose daughter accidentally died from ingesting one of the plants. There is also the endless creaking caused by the pacing footsteps in the attic above Rowan's bedroom by someone (or something) unknown.
It slowly dawns on her that she has made a big mistake.
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