Safe House Rules

Disgraced crisis-management consultant Meryl Rook accepts a last-chance job inside a confidential safe house for whistleblowers, where safety is guaranteed through strict secrecy and narrative control. As residents are encouraged to reinterpret their own memories "for protection," Meryl discovers the house is less a refuge than a system designed to neutralize truth until it loses authority. When a resident is quietly erased for refusing to comply, Meryl must choose between preserving her own survival or refusing to participate in the machinery that silences others. Her resistance doesn't come through exposure or rebellion, but through calm refusal and the slow diffusion of uncorrected memory. The Safe House Rules is a psychological thriller about power without villains, harm without spectacle, and the quiet danger of systems that claim to protect by controlling what can be said.