Fiction by Ty Hutchison.
Mitzi is a life coach in Bodega Bay, California, seeing clients both online and in person and helping them achieve their goals. She gets a job offer to coach Timber Darkwood, an artist and rich psychiatrist's wife who has hit a rough patch in her life and needs help getting back on track. The only problem is that Mitzi has to move into Timber's eighteen-bedroom mansion on her Eureka estate in order to take the job. Wait, what? So Mitzi has to just forego all other work and go live in a weird giant house in the middle of nowhere for several months? Unlike any rational human being, Mitzi agrees.
The story unfolds predictably from there: Timber seems just fine one minute and nutty the next, Dr. Darkwood takes Mitzi's car keys and neglects to return them, the staff acts mysteriously and seems afraid of their employer, et cetera. The reader keeps wondering why Mitzi doesn't behave like a normal adult and exit this situation. She has no reasons beyond the service of the plot to sit through this craziness.
Well, there's a reason, and it's revealed at the surprise ending, but it was stupid in my opinion. I didn't buy this plot line at all. Sorry.
I also read recently by this author: The Friend Group
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