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Does Madness Haunt Trask Manor?

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Synopsis

Warren Trask was always difficult. A brilliant, opulent and pretentious tyrant, he imposed a ruthless need for dominance over everyone and everything within his orbit. Camilla Voss didn’t care. She had spent the last eight years managing his art collections within his private mansion and expects dust, drama, and deadlines.

What she didn’t expect was the suffocating weight of paranoia—or the strange, clawed creature that seems to be watching them both.

As Warren spirals, so does the house around them—walls whisper, shadows twitch, and Camilla finds herself less employee, more witness. To madness. To judgment.

And when the final chapter is written in blood, Camilla must decide: is she just recording the truth… or becoming part of the legend?

 

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