Invisible in Plain Sight.
She sees everything.
She was told she was “just the cleaning lady.” She’s about to prove she’s so much more.
After losing her mother, Carmen Rivera walks away from her housekeeping job in a blaze of defiance—only to land in the home of Harper Wade, the brilliant but overworked founder of the very company she swore to avoid.
What starts as an unlikely job quickly transforms into something bigger: Carmen’s hidden talent for finance catches Harper’s eye, and soon she’s pulled into the high-stakes world of startups, investors, and second chances. Along the way, Carmen finds family, friendship, and even love—until betrayal threatens to unravel it all.
Full of heart, humor, and resilience, this is the story of a young woman discovering her worth and daring to dream beyond the limits of her past.
Author
RENE STREITLER
Not JUST the cleaning lady.
Rene Streitler writes from the heart, drawing inspiration from her own experiences navigating hard work, reinvention, and the quiet strength found in starting over. Much like Carmen Rivera in The Housekeeper’s Code, Rene understands what it means to carry family on your back, rebuild after loss, and step into worlds where you’re not expected to belong.
Her fiction is rooted in real life — in the dignity of working women, in the unspoken bonds between mothers and daughters, and in the bravery it takes to chase opportunity even when the odds feel stacked the other way. Through Carmen’s rise from “just the cleaning lady” to a woman discovering her own brilliance, Rene channels themes that mirror her own journey: resilience, transformation, and the belief that no one’s story is too small to matter.
Rene’s work blends drama, humor, and heartfelt truth, inviting readers to see themselves in characters who fight quietly, love fiercely, and refuse to stay invisible.