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We're 13 girls, captive to a man we rarely see. Obedience will become all we know - it is the only emotion we're permitted to feel. When we're bad, we're punished. When we're good, we're rewarded. Our scars run deep, yet we survive because we have to - because he teaches us to. All of us are special, we feel it with everything we are. He has us for a reason, but it's a reason we don't know. We haven't seen his face, but we know that something deeply broken lies beneath the darkness. With every touch, with every punishment, we know it.

Mary has everything. Beautiful and rich, she lives on an exclusive street in the heart of the city, in a house with gorgeous views and an immaculately maintained garden. Her life looks perfect. But behind closed doors the truth is very different. Her husband, Andrew, barely speaks to her, spending his days down in the basement alone. Her teenage nephew is full of rage, lashing out with no warning. Her carefully constructed life is beginning to fall apart.

Claire Dalton opens her eyes in a hotel room she doesn’t recognize—her hands stained with blood, a dead man in the bathtub, and no memory of how she got there. The staff insist she checked into Room 13. The CCTV shows her face. The name on the register is hers. But Claire knows she didn’t choose this room. And she knows she isn’t the only one who could be wearing her skin. Haunted by the twin sister she buried years ago, Claire is pulled into a deadly spiral of deception, paranoia, and betrayal.

Gray’s life has been in turmoil ever since her mother was chosen to lead the country. First, they had to leave their home and move into the prime minister’s official residence at Number 10, Downing Street. Now, everywhere she goes, she must be accompanied by bodyguards. Worst of all, the media won’t leave her alone - she’s in every tabloid, and her behavior, appearance, the length of her skirts...everything is judged.