The Housewife

368 pages | paperback

From bestselling indie thriller writer Natalie Barelli comes a new deliciously dark novel. Jodie married the man of her dreams—then discovered his darkest secret. Now, trapped in a house filled with lies and a legacy of death, she must escape before she becomes the next perfect wife…permanently.

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 her supposed suicide, she suspects Roy was behind it. The deeper she digs, the darker Roy’s past appears—obsessive, controlling, and unfaithful. Convinced he had something to do with Deborah’s death, Jodie wants to go to the police, but revealing her own secret—a prison sentence for a crime she swears she didn’t commit—could destroy her.

Instead, she enlists a friend to help, only to be dismissed as jealous and unhinged. But Jodie won’t be silenced. 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.