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The Housekeeper’s Secret

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The Housekeeper’s Secret is a powerful memoir that unearths the hidden past of Lee Metoyer, the longtime housekeeper for the author’s affluent Midwestern family. Honoring Lee’s final wish, Sandra embarks on a decade-long journey to uncover Lee’s untold story—one marked by trauma, institutional abuse, and secret children. As Sandra pieces together Lee’s life, she confronts painful truths about her own family’s privilege, silence, and complicity. This deeply personal narrative is a moving exploration of love, survival, and the generational impact of secrets, ultimately revealing the love and courage it takes to speak the truth and fulfill a promise.

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For fans of stranger than truth stories, Sandy Schnakenburg is uncovering rattling and unprecedented revelations in this powerful memoir of love, secrets, and survival.

When Lee Metoyer is hired to be the new housekeeper, she has no idea that she’s about to become the anchor to a family in an abusive patriarch’s home, setting a mystery in motion that will take decades to uncover. At the age of seventy-two, Lee falls ill and on her deathbed asks Sandy to write her story. The only problem is, Sandy doesn’t know the story.

Embarking on a quest to honor Lee’s final wishes, Sandy takes an emotional and thrilling journey, unveiling shocking truths not only about her beloved housekeeper but also her own upbringing. As she digs further, she learns that Lee came to her family’s sprawling estate in Barrington, IL, harboring a secret past. For decades, she’s been in hiding. But Lee is not the only one with secrets; Sandy’s quest forces her to grapple with her own family history as well, and to finally confront the effects of the psychological abuse she suffered as a child.

Both a chilling and exciting personal tale of love and survival, The Housekeeper’s Secret is a gripping saga that illuminates the resilience of the human spirit.

Additional information

Author

Sandra Schnakenburg

Publisher

She Writes Press

Year of Publishing

December 3, 2024

‏ISBN-13

‎ 978-1647427603

Genre

Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Memoir

Format

Kindle, Paperback, Audiobook, AudioCD

Number of pages

304 Pages

Language

‎ English

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