The Wife Between Us

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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Part 1, Prologue-Chapter 3

Part 1, Chapters 4-6

Part 1, Chapters 7-9

Part 1, Chapters 10-12

Part 1, Chapters 13-15

Part 1, Chapters 16-18

Part 2, Chapters 19-21

Part 2, Chapters 22-24

Part 2, Chapters 25-27

Part 2, Chapters 28-30

Part 3, Chapters 31-33

Part 3, Chapters 34-36

Part 3, Chapters 37-39

Part 3, Chapter 40-Epilogue

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The Wife Between Us is a psychological thriller by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen published in 2017. Pekkanen and Hendricks are a best-selling author duo known for their co-authored psychological thrillers, including The Golden Couple (2022), An Anonymous Girl (2019), and You Are Not Alone (2020). The Wife Between Us follows recently divorced Vanessa Thompson as she tries to prevent her ex-husband’s second marriage to the woman he left her for.

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The novel is divided into three parts; Part 1 switches between Vanessa’s first-person narration and Nellie’s third-person account. In the Prologue, Vanessa stalks the young, pretty woman her ex-husband, Richard, left her for and ominously alludes to the harm the other woman may suffer if she stays with Richard.

Nellie, a compulsively nervous pre-school teacher, prepares for her upcoming wedding to Richard, a successful businessman. When Nellie was in college, her life was altered by a traumatic event, and this experience intensified her lifelong insomnia. Her anxiety has recently grown as she has begun to receive mysterious, anonymous calls. These calls unsettle her, but she finds comfort in Richard’s ability to soothe and protect her.