An injured woman wakes in a car's back seat, unable to move, and hears two people discussing plans to dump her body.

A couple at an abandoned ocean dock watches two people dump a carpet roll and push a yellow Subaru into the water.

An elderly neighbor watches a yellow Subaru arrive at the Glass House, then calls 911 after hearing a woman scream late at night.

Detective Mal arrives at the Glass House to find blood spatter, a crushed bouquet, and no victims anywhere on the property.

A bloody sneaker too small for the homeowner and a diamond pendant are recovered from the Glass House crime scene.

Kit arrives to clean the Rittenberg home and is shocked to recognize Jon Rittenberg's face in large photos above the fireplace.

Beulah tells Mal she watched two people drag a heavy carpet to the maid's yellow Subaru on Halloween night.

Kit calls Charley Waters and learns Jon drugged and raped Charley, while Daisy harassed Charley into terminating her pregnancy.

Kit opens the stolen thumb drive and finds a video recording of her own gang rape at the Whistler ski lodge.

Daisy confesses over wine to Vanessa that she helped cover up two separate sexual assault allegations against Jon.

Jon is called into the TerraWest boardroom, confronted with compromising photographs and evidence of his scheme, and fired immediately.

Jon and Daisy arrive at the Glass House for dinner and discover that their host Vanessa is actually Kit in disguise.

Kit demands $900,000 from Jon and Daisy to stay silent about their crimes, and Jon privately vows revenge.

Boon confesses to Mal that he helped Kit stage the fake murder scene, plant Jon's blood, and dump the Subaru.

Kit is revealed alive in Bali, starting a new life under the name Kat while watching news of the Rittenbergs' convictions.

A woman is found beaten and barely conscious in a car, setting the stage for a Halloween night mystery that Detective Mal pursues through the blood-soaked Glass House. The investigation quickly centers on maid Kit Darling as a probable murder victim and the Rittenbergs as prime suspects. Kit's diary reveals the true motive: years earlier, Jon Rittenberg and his ski team gang-raped a teenage Kit, and Daisy helped cover it up twice. Assembling disguises and fellow actors, Kit stages her own murder to expose the Rittenbergs at a Halloween dinner where she unmasks herself and demands justice. The trap closes when Kit's accomplice Boon reveals the full scheme to investigators, delivering evidence that Jon and Daisy cannot escape. Kit disappears overseas, her convictions secured and her identity finally her own.

The maid's disappearance, the investigation, and Kit's revenge unmasked.

Kit introduces herself in her diary as a 34-year-old maid who uses her invisibility to snoop through wealthy clients' homes.

Daisy discovers an anonymous threatening note tucked under her windshield wiper warning that her stalker knows who she really is.

Jon has dinner with TerraWest director Henry Clay and learns that a rival named Ahmed Waheed will become the new CEO.

On her first cleaning day at the Rittenberg house, Kit finds Jon's open computer and emails herself his calendar and passwords.

After meeting Ahmed Waheed at work, Jon secretly hires private investigator Jake Preston to find damaging information on his rival.

Mal and Benoit arrive at Rose Cottage to find Jon with fresh facial scratches, a bandaged hand, and refusing entry without a warrant.

Daisy opens a hand-delivered brown envelope at home and finds a threatening message, realizing her stalker now has access to her house.

Kit discovers documents hidden in Daisy's safe that reveal a secret devastating enough to force her into action.

Mal finds Daisy hiding at her parents' estate, and Daisy goes pale but insists she has never seen Kit Darling before.

Daisy phones Charley Waters to accuse her of stalking, but Charley denies it and mentions a woman named Kit.

Mal receives word that Vanessa and Haruto North have been living in Singapore for six months and Vanessa is not pregnant.

Jon wakes handcuffed to a bed in a rented apartment with a needle mark on his arm, unable to recall anything.

Lawyer Tamara Adler admits to Mal that she witnessed the Halloween dock disposal but stayed silent to conceal her affair with a politician.

Kit confesses in her diary that she never had a therapist and the journal was always intended as planted evidence.

Mal reads Kit's final diary entry revealing that a teenage Daisy helped carry an unconscious Kit out of the ski lodge.

Behind their gleaming social media image, both Jon and Daisy are hiding serious fractures in their marriage and their pasts. Jon schemes to sabotage a workplace rival while pursuing an affair, and Daisy grows increasingly paranoid about an anonymous stalker whose messages eerily echo her own past wrongdoings. Kit methodically exploits her invisibility as a maid to gather passwords, documents, and secrets that will arm her revenge, while the detective investigation struggles to separate fact from planted fiction. Key witnesses either stay silent or lie outright, mirroring the cover-up that protected Jon years earlier. The truth surfaces through Daisy's own admissions and a diary that was never quite what it appeared to be. By the end, Kit's planted evidence and Boon's testimony expose the full history of complicity that allowed Jon's crimes to go unpunished for nearly two decades.

The crumbling lives behind the Rittenbergs' perfect façade.

Kit scatters her mother's ashes at an ocean overlook with Boon, feeling utterly lost, before heading to clean a new property.

Jon strikes up a conversation with a mysterious admirer named Mia at a restaurant bar, who flatters his ego about his ski career.

Kit researches the Rittenbergs online and discovers that a woman named Charley Waters previously accused Jon of rape in Colorado.

Daisy meets Vanessa for lunch and confides that anonymous threatening messages have been arriving since she returned to Vancouver.

A hidden photographer secretly captures images of Jon meeting privately with investigator Jake Preston outside a restaurant.

Jon texts Mia from an upstairs bedroom to arrange another meeting, telling himself that secret infidelity causes no harm.

A substitute maid arrives at the Rittenberg house on the day Daisy stays home specifically to confront Kit in person.

Mal confirms that the real Norths only occupy the Glass House two months a year and have no idea who their maid is.

Kit forces Boon to watch the ski lodge rape video and demands he explain why he never came forward to help her.

Security camera footage is discovered showing both the Subaru and an Audi driving toward the abandoned dockyard on Halloween night.

Mal shows photographs of the real Vanessa North to locals, and neither the yoga instructor nor the restaurant owner recognizes her.

Divers retrieve Kit's diary from the sunken Subaru, and Jon's DNA is confirmed as a match for blood at the crime scene.

Drunk and enraged, Jon drives to the Glass House intending to kill Kit but arrives to find others already carrying a carpet away.

Mal interrogates Daisy, who deflects questions about the diamond pendant and fingerprints found at the Glass House by citing prior visits.

Divers finally raise the submerged body, revealing it belongs to an elderly missing woman with dementia, not Kit.

Kit's transformation from grieving daughter to master orchestrator hinges on a chain of discoveries and quiet decisions that shift the power dynamic of the entire novel. A chance assignment to the Rittenberg home opens a trail of evidence — online accusations, concealed files, and a damning video — that forces Kit to reckon with a past she was never allowed to remember. Jon's affair with the mysterious Mia and the false identity of Vanessa North are carefully constructed illusions that fall apart only under sustained police scrutiny. Key revelations about the real Norths' absence and the true source of the stalking messages reframe the entire investigation for Mal and her team. When a body is finally raised from the water and turns out to belong to a stranger, the detectives must dismantle every assumption they have built. These turning points reveal how completely Kit controlled the narrative — and the reader — from the very beginning.