The Subsequent Wife

A completely engrossing, unsettling thriller with a jaw-dropping ending.

Jennifer Lomax is twenty-one, but she's already taken some hard knocks in life. So when widower Steven Taverner asks her to marry him, she's desperate to believe she's found true love . . . but she knows something's not right about her relationship with Steven. Is her desperation to escape one life about to lead her to a much darker place?

She’s not his first. Will she live to be his last?
Jennifer Lomax is twenty-one, but she’s already taken some hard knocks in life. So when older, reserved and enigmatic widower Steven Taverner asks her to marry him, she’s desperate to believe she's found true love. That her lifelong dream could finally become a reality.
But Jennifer also knows there’s something not right about Steven. What secrets is he hiding about his dead wife, Margaret, and why does he refuse to talk about her?
Jennifer decides to uncover the truth about Margaret. She soon wishes she hadn't. Is she about to make a devastating mistake?