Temporary Arrangement

Temporary Arrangement is a sharply intimate, slow-burning domestic drama about what happens when survival meets secrecy-and the house you're hired to clean starts to reveal the people you're meant to fix.

Elise Carter never expected her life to collapse over a format change at a mid-tier radio station. But when the silence sets in-no job, no plan, no options-she answers a cryptic ad for a live-in housekeeper. The instructions are simple: discretion required, child experience preferred, generous compensation.

She expected to clean floors.
She didn't expect to excavate lives.

The Glass House is pristine, sterile, and filled with unspoken rules. Its owner, Grant Lennox, is a man who measures connection in silence and control. His teenage daughter, known only as "S," is razor-sharp, emotionally sealed, and always watching. Between the three of them grows a fragile ecosystem where every glance is loaded, and every conversation is a test.

What starts as a "temporary arrangement" soon unravels into something more dangerous-and more intimate. Elise finds herself entangled in a family drama riddled with grief, guilt, and unhealed wounds. But the closer she gets to understanding the truth, the more she realizes: this isn't a house, it's a performance. And she's been cast in a role no one explained.

Tense, emotionally layered, and darkly elegant, Temporary Arrangement explores the boundaries between duty and desire, silence and survival, and asks the question: Can you truly observe without becoming involved?

Fans of Celeste Ng, Talia Hibbert, and Taylor Jenkins Reid will find themselves drawn to the complex characters, razor-sharp dialogue, and haunting atmosphere of this psychological contemporary novel.