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The Housewife

by Natalie Barelli

A marriage built on secrets

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A marriage built on secrets

Jodie enters marriage with a clear idea of the life she wants: to be a housewife. Her new home in Beverly Hills, however, is shaped by the memory of Roy Davies’s late wife, Deborah, and by Roy’s growing distance from her. As Jodie investigates Deborah’s final years, her suspicions about Roy deepen, while her own secret complicates the possibility of seeking help. The novel’s psychological-suspense framework turns domestic roles, a seemingly perfect home, and the stories people conceal from one another into sources of tension. Its central conflict asks what Jodie can risk exposing as she tries to understand the danger surrounding her.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers of psychological thrillers centered on marriage and domestic life
  • Readers interested in mysteries involving a spouse’s past and a concealed secret

Themes

Marriage and domestic rolesControl and suspicionSecrets and deceptionThe lingering presence of the past

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INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER

"Natalie Barelli delivers every time." -- Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"THIS is how you write an original main character!" -- Iliana Xander, author of Love, Mom

From bestselling indie thriller writer Natalie Barelli comes a new deliciously dark novel about a woman who married the man of her dreams with the express purpose of becoming his worst nightmare.

Jodie always dreamed of being a housewife. And after a whirlwind romance, she marries renowned psychologist Dr. Roy Davies and moves into his perfect Beverly Hills home. But the fairy tale fades fast. Roy is distant, his friends view her as a gold-digger, and the house still reveres his late wife, Deborah, whose presence still looms over everyone and everything.

When Jodie learns Deborah became a recluse before death, she begins to suspect Roy was behind it. And the deeper she digs, the darker Roy's past appears--obsessive, controlling, unfaithful. Increasingly convinced he had something to do with Deborah's death, Jodie knows she should go to the police, but that would require revealing her own secret. A secret that could destroy her.

But Jodie won't be silenced. Because the truth about Roy is worse than she imagined--and now, trapped in a house built on lies, she must find a way out before she becomes the next perfect wife to vanish.

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