A debut psychological thriller
Nanny Cam
It’s always watching.
A new mother. A perfect nanny. A house where nothing stays where she left it. The camera was supposed to make her feel safe.
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Nanny Cam
A modern psychological thriller · Savannah, Georgia
Liv is barely keeping it together — chasing the baby away from the corner of the kitchen table, clawing her way back into the career she put on hold, trying to be the mother she's already sure she isn't. So she hires a nanny and puts up a camera to watch over the house while she works. On screen, the nanny is perfect: loving, attentive, wonderful.
But Liv's own life is quietly unraveling. Food spoils overnight. The thermostat resets itself. She and her husband fight over things neither of them said. She becomes certain the nanny is doing something to the footage. Her husband thinks she's losing it. The reader is sure the nanny is the villain.
Everyone is wrong.
How far would you go to keep your child safe?
About the Author
Layne Whitaker
Layne Whitaker writes psychological thrillers about the quiet ways ordinary trust goes wrong — the loving gesture that turns out to be a leash, the safe choice that was the trap all along.
By day she's a scientist in advanced materials research; by night she writes the kind of first-person suspense that makes you reread the last chapter to see what you missed the first time. She's meticulous to a fault, unfailingly kind to the people she puts through hell on the page, and based in West Seattle.
Layne is not on social media — which, she'll tell you, is probably for the best. Nanny Cam is her debut.
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