A Happy Wife

I am a happy wife. My love chip guarantees it. Until I discover my husband's secrets, now it's glitching—and so am I.

I never grew up expecting a happy ending.

 Not when I spent my childhood invisible, hungry, and utterly unchosen.

 So when Ivan offered me a life of safety, love, and a way out, I said yes.

 And when he proposed the neural implant that would seal our devotion forever, I said yes again.

What else was I going to say?

 No?

 And return to nothing?

The truth is, the chip works.

 I live in a Manhattan apartment of my dreams.

 I have the career I wanted.

 I yearn for nothing.

So when I’m supposed to smile, I smile.

 When I’m supposed to feel love, elation, and satisfaction, I feel them.

 The chip makes sure of that.

I am a happy wife.

Until I find something I was never meant to see—proof that my husband may have other plans for me.

I want to believe I’m imagining things.

 That I’m tired.

 Paranoid.

 Overthinking it.

But what if I’m not?

Because there’s one clause in our agreement that neither of us talks about:

 There’s only one way out of this marriage.

Death.

 His…

 or mine.

A Happy Wife is a gripping, addictive, and immersive psychological thriller about devotion, illusion, and the dangers of loving someone while being influenced by revolutionary technology that rewrites your every instinct.