"e;A good marriage requires two people who agree on what the house should look like. A dangerous one requires only one."e;Interior decorator Elise Ward thought she was simply moving into her husband Ryan's idyllic Hollow Brook home. But when household objects inexplicably begin to shift—mugs turned upside down in the cabinets, unfamiliar floral curtains replacing her own, the sudden and cloying scent of lavender—Ryan smoothly blames Elise's memory and stress. As his subtle gaslighting escalates into a calculated campaign to have her declared mentally incompetent and seize her assets, Elise realizes she isn't losing her mind. She is following a meticulously laid trail.Hidden beneath pantry shelves and locked in a secret storage unit, Elise uncovers diaries left by Allison, Ryan's first wife, who supposedly died in a tragic hiking accident eight years ago. Allison's notebooks reveal a chilling blueprint of coercive control, documenting the exact same psychological warfare Ryan is now waging against Elise. The message is clear: Ryan manufactures insanity to control his wives, and when they try to leave, they have "e;accidents."e;Realizing that her marriage is a perfectly staged cage, Elise must use her professional decorator's eye for detail to outsmart a husband who monitors her every move and heartbeat. Refusing to be the next victim, Elise secretly gathers an unlikely coalition of women—including Allison's grieving mother, a watchful insomniac neighbor, and her own betrayed coworker—to execute a flawless counter-design.
