When 23-year-old Cassandra Weil takes her first Au Pair job as an au pair, she finds herself with a wealthy family in the countryside outside Paris, where everything seems too perfect to be true. But soon, beyond the gilded gates, she discovers a dysfunctional family, a twisted marriage, troubled children, and secrets too dark to reveal. Beneath the wealth lies a dark web of malice that Cassandra finds all too familiar, conjuring dreams from her own cruel and tormented past that she desperately escapes. And when a gruesome murder tears the house apart, it threatens to shatter her own fragile psyche.A gripping story replete with complex characters, secrets, dramatic twists and heart-wrenching suspense, ALMOST GONE is the first book in the Au Pair series of psychological thrillers that will make you flip through the pages until the night.