Delphine Marchetti is twenty, and her family once stood comfortably in the middle class on the West Coast. As a girl she watched her mother die in a second pregnancy, a death her father's affair with the household's music tutor, Odette Kessler, helped bring about. Much later she gets into the Halloway estate through a premium staffing agency, calling herself Della, and takes a job as a maid. Her employer is the mistress of the house, Odette herself, the woman who wrecked her family.
Every day Delphine serves the woman she hates, and every day she collects the small truths that expose the affair and the lies that surround it. She has one goal, and she does not intend to leave the house until it is complete.
