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Happy Wife: A Read with Jenna Pick

by Meredith Lavender

A marriage—and a disappearance—shake Winter Park

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A marriage—and a disappearance—shake Winter Park

In Winter Park, Florida, Nora Davies is an outsider to the wealthy social world she enters when she marries prominent lawyer Will Somerset. After Will vanishes the morning following a birthday party Nora hosted, she faces both a search for her husband and questions about her own innocence. The narrative moves between the couple’s courtship and the events surrounding his disappearance, placing the mystery within a community shaped by money, status, and guarded private lives. Marriage, wealth, belonging, and suspicion meet in a thriller whose central question is what happened to Will—and what Nora can prove.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy suspense centered on a disappearance and questions of innocence.
  • Those interested in stories about marriage and social status in an affluent community.
  • Fans of mysteries that alternate between a relationship’s beginnings and its aftermath.

Themes

Marriage and trustWealth and social statusBelongingSecrets and suspicion

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Book overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY - A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this twisty, unputdownable novel set in an ultrawealthy Florida community where looks can kill.

"Happy Wife is one of those delicious, fun summer books that you'll open on the beach and never put down."--Jenna Bush Hager, Read With Jenna


Nora Davies doesn't exactly fit in to Winter Park, Florida, where old-guard Floridians mix with the tax-fleeing coastal elite. Twenty-eight and barely making ends meet working at a country club, Nora feels like she's going nowhere fast. Enter Will Somerset: a prominent forty-six-year-old lawyer, father to a teenage daughter, and recently divorced. The two set Winter Park's social scene agog when they fall in love and marry after a whirlwind Cinderella-style courtship.

But Winter Park is fully upended when Will disappears the morning after a birthday bash Nora throws for him. Going back and forth between Nora and Will's romance and the search in the wake of Will's mysterious disappearance, Nora must answer the question from all angles: Where. Is. Will?

Combining breathless suspense, glittering and juicy social dynamics, and an unforgettable cast of characters, Happy Wife is a clever and subversive novel that explores marriage, wealth, and the secrets that lurk behind closed doors.
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