Haussitter

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>...let's just say if I wind up on the news these are the people who ate me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But Brian can handle it duh. He may be flat broke...his best friend may call him 'high empathy no boundaries'...but he's still </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>from</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the Main Line those über-wealthy suburbs of Philadelphia where old-money campuses lurk behind iron gates and half-acre estates line every street. Just smile and nod Bri. Fawn and grovel.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And Mallory Bain-Dahlhaus needs a housesitter. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The poodle's in diapers. The cat pisses in the potted plants. And there's...</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>something</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> on the far side </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>always</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> on the far side of her gorgeous Tudor mansion.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It'll be wherever you're not.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The ritual's simple if strange. A nice fat check. A binding spell to give Brian dominion. The closed second floor is off limits - stick to the first or third. But as summer stay leads to autumn visitation with a winter gig bleeding into the new year the laws of attraction take root. Step a little closer Bri. Open the door. Shed that skin.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From debut novelist Brendan Norton comes a queer cosmic horror bacchanal that leaves no luxury unattained and no soul unscathed. Her home is your home. </span></p><p></p>