The Spare Room Pact - A Quiet Deal Between Neighbors Turns Explosive #898178

When widowed piano teacher Margaret Halberg takes in Delia, a courteous young woman needing a place to stay, it feels simple enough: no guests, shared chores, one month to see how it goes. Margaret wants her routines. Delia brings warmth. And the house, once so still, begins to feel alive again.
But unease creeps in.
Delia cooks, cleans, and listens yet she asks questions no one else would. She lingers in doorways, studies family photos too closely. And behind Margaret’s careful manners, dread grows with every hushed phone call, every pill that goes missing.
As Margaret’s health slips and old memories surface letters left unsent, names never spoken the line between guest and intruder blurs. Delia may not just be renting a room. She may be reclaiming a life that was never hers.
When the past knocks and smiles at the door, is it offering peace or demanding reckoning?
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Like every tale in Turning Points, this one proves that trust is fragile and nothing is ever what it seems.
Turning Points is a twist-driven series where the unexpected always finds you. From unsettling family dramas to sharp-edged sci-fi and dark comedy, each book delivers a jolt a secret, a reveal that turns the truth upside down. These stories cut across suspense, emotion, and ideas built to linger, written for readers who crave the gasp, the double-take, the moment that shifts everything.
You’ll question what looks certain. You’ll flip back through pages.
Because here, trust is never safe and every ending rewrites the start.