A Happy Wife
About
She said yes to love. She didn’t know it came with a kill switch.
I never dreamed of a fairy-tale ending. Not when I grew up hungry, invisible, and utterly unchosen.
So when Ivan offered me safety, devotion, and a way out, I said yes. Even when he suggested we be chipped, an experimental neural implant designed to lock in our love, I agreed.
What else was I going to do? Go back to nothing?
Now I live in a luxury Manhattan apartment.
I smile when I’m supposed to.
I feel what I’m supposed to feel.
Because the chip guarantees it.
I am a happy wife.
Until I find something I was never meant to see, proof that my husband may have orchestrated more than our marriage.
Proof that he doesn’t intend for me to survive it.
I want to believe I’m paranoid. Exhausted. Imagining things.
But if I’m right, then I didn’t marry a savior.
I married someone who’s trapped me in his gilded cage.
And divorce won’t set me free.
Because the only way out of this marriage…
is death.
His or mine.
A Happy Wife is a twisty domestic psychological thriller with a speculative edge. It's perfect for readers of The Wife Between Us and Behind Closed Doors, and fans of the high-stakes relationship suspense of Freida McFadden.
Praise for this book
Oh my gosh! This has got to be one of THE twistiest books I have ever read! It was so gripping that I seriously could not put it down and go to bed until I finished it all! This book really got into my head. The way I gasped and had to pick my jaw up off the floor at the end — Five stars for sure!
This novel is great for fans of Frieda McFadden's The Housemaid, as the writing is sharp and the story is expertly woven with many twists that you don't see at first. There's also the underlying question of how far we should go with science, technology, and health to achieve perfection and happiness.
The chapters were super short, kind of similar to Freida McFadden's style of writing, and made for a great book to dip and dive out of in the evenings, although I often found that I kept reading because I was curious to see where it was going. The twists at the end didn't disappoint, and overall