Debut Novel Coming Soon

HOUSEKEEPER
5/5/25
This is not her house. These are not her rules.
When recently divorced Margot takes a position as housekeeper at the House on Lakeview Drive, she's desperate for stability and a fresh start. The salary is generous, the work familiar, and the house itself seems perfectly ordinary.
But from the moment she steps in the door, something feels wrong.
Distances between rooms shift overnight. Doors appear and disappear without explanation. The red light that pulses on the other side of her bedroom door at 1 AM brings with it sounds of grinding metal and shifting flesh. And her fellow staff members seem determined to act like nothing’s wrong.
As her questions pile up, and the bodies begin to drop, Margot becomes determined to uncover the truth behind the House on Lakeview Drive. But there are dangers in its halls, in its carousel of strange rooms, behind the unending peach wallpaper. Margot has to be smart if she wants to outthink the house, but her investigation won't go unnoticed for long. Someone, or something, is watching her every move.
A haunting, literary exploration of identity, memory, and resistance, HOUSEKEEPER combines psychological dread with cosmic horror to create a disturbing vision of what might lurk behind the façade of domesticity.
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About DARBY
Darby Machin is a three-time murder attempt survivor, and unwilling recipient of Multiple Sclerosis. He lives in the East of England, with a cavalcade of ghosts, a half-dead snake plant, and a frankly concerning amount of unfinished crochet projects. He is a queer, Roma author, whose stories explore survival through transformation, and themes of class and identity. Housekeeper, his debut upmarket horror novel, is out 5/5/25.
email inquiries can be sent to:
darby.machin@gmail.com