# Mind How You Go

By Madison Jae. A psychological thriller, and a marriage thriller. Publishing October 23, 2026 by Transcendant Publishing, the author's own imprint. Available to pre-order.

- Length: about 84,000 words
- Setting: a converted stone house on the Devon coast, England
- Point of view: first person, present tense. The novel opens in Clover's voice.
- Also listed as: "Mind How You Go: A Chilling Psychological Thriller of Coercive Control"
- Web page: https://madisonjae.com/mind-how-you-go/
- Pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H68C6W5F
- Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254410134-mind-how-you-go
- Content warning: https://madisonjae.com/mind-how-you-go/content-warning/

## Premise

Clover lives inside the kind of house other people save to moodboards: converted stone, warm floors, glass facing the Devon sea, a kitchen that wakes before she does.

Her husband, Beckett, built the system before she moved in. It learns her routines, keeps the doors locked, and turns the heat up before she is cold. It notices when she sleeps badly.

Then the house begins to show her things it shouldn't know. A name she buried five years ago, spoken aloud by a kitchen speaker. A photograph of a child no algorithm should be able to find. A forged medical alert that sends her driving through the dark.

Every time she reports what she has seen, the system shows nothing, and her husband asks if she has been sleeping. The house is the only witness to what the house is doing.

## Clover

Pregnant, newly married, and trying hard to believe in the version of her life that looks like the house. She keeps a paper calendar on the fridge and a plug-in kettle on the counter, two small stubbornnesses in a kitchen that wants everything synced. She also has a past she changed her name to get away from.

## Objects from the novel

- **The hum.** A low frequency in the walls and floors. So constant the body starts mistaking it for quiet.
- **The locked study.** The one door in the house that does not open for her.
- **The paper calendar.** Her handwriting, pinned to the fridge. A record the house cannot correct.
- **The kettle.** Plug-in, dumb, hers. The one thing in the kitchen that does only what she tells it.

## Comparable titles

The author names Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin and Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.