The Assistant's List

She arrived before dawn. She never made a mistake. She remembered everything.

Clara Engel is the perfect assistant. For eleven months, she has managed Miranda Voss's empire with flawless precision — the schedules, the medications, the secrets. Miranda, CEO of a billion-dollar lifestyle brand, trusts Clara more than anyone in her life.

That's exactly what Clara planned.

Because Clara Engel doesn't exist. The woman behind the name has spent six years building a false identity, forging credentials, and engineering her way into Miranda's world. She isn't there to serve. She's there to destroy.

Twenty years ago, Miranda helped bury a corporate cover-up that killed Clara's mother — a whistleblower chemist who reported dangerous toxins in a bestselling product. She was fired. Blacklisted. Erased. And Clara has never forgotten.

Now, from inside Miranda's glass-walled office on the forty-second floor, Clara is dismantling the empire one document at a time. Every file she copies, every meeting she rearranges, every pill she counts brings her closer to the reckoning she's spent half her life designing.

But revenge has a cost Clara didn't calculate. Miranda's son is falling for her. An anonymous emailer knows her real name. And the deeper Clara digs into Miranda's past, the more she discovers a truth that doesn't fit the monster she came to destroy — a truth that could unravel everything, including the woman Clara has become.

The Assistant's List is a razor-sharp psychological thriller about power, identity, and the price of becoming the person you were never meant to be.

For fans of Gillian Flynn, Freida McFadden, and Alex Michaelides.