A darkly comic crime novel, this story follows Lalla Rook, a hyper-competent wife and mother juggling social ambition, motherhood, and a carefully curated façade—until she impulsively kills an intruder in her living room hours before her child’s birthday party. As she coolly manages body disposal, social politics, and police scrutiny, Lalla’s buried past and mounting domestic pressures threaten to unravel the perfect life she’s determined to secure.