The Subsequent Wife

by Priscilla Masters

Overview

She's not the first. Will she live to be the 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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780727850591
Publisher:	Severn House
Publication date:	08/03/2021
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.98(h) x (d)

About the Author

Priscilla Masters is the author of the popular DI Joanna Piercy series, as well as the successful Martha Gunn novels and a series of forensic psychiatrist mysteries featuring Dr Claire Roget. She lives near the Shropshire/Staffordshire border. A retired respiratory nurse, Priscilla has two grown-up sons and two grandsons.

Editorial Reviews

The tension builds slowly but inexorably as the heroine uncovers shocking revelations - Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2021-05-19
In a departure from her several series, Masters produces a stand-alone set in a small city in the middle of England and imbued with darkness and a creeping fear.

Jen Lomax has hungered for a normal middle-class life ever since her selfish parents left her to fend for herself, putting paid to her hopes for a scholarship to university. Her friends encourage her to find Mr. Right, but her dating history has gone from bad to worse. She’s been working at a low-paying elder care job until she gets fed up, quits, and stumbles into a much better job at a self-storage unit, where she’s happy to be bored. The customers, who range from friendly to nasty, include Steven Taverner, an attractive but shy older man (is he married, divorced, or widowed?) who rents a unit for some boxes and bags marked "Margaret." Slowly Steven gets to know Jen. He offers her shy compliments and eventually an expensive, brand-new dress that he plucks from his unit as a gift. Jen’s curiosity about Steven gradually overwhelms her. As she imagines increasingly fanciful stories about his past, he continues to give her gifts that seem to have belonged to the elusive Margaret and finally asks her for a date. Although her friends all warn her to be careful, she’s seduced by the lifestyle of Steven, who has a good job and owns a house, and keeps seeing him despite his weird sexual preferences. Despite many warning signs, she marries him only to find herself immersed in a horror story.

The tension builds slowly but inexorably as the heroine uncovers shocking revelations.

Kirkus Reviews

Masters has another successful, character-driven series ahead

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