Five years ago, Nora Ashford had the perfect wedding. The Hill Country light. The vows that made everyone cry. The first dance where her husband's eyes filled with tears he couldn't control.
Five years ago, her best friend Claire fell from a third-floor balcony and almost died.
Everyone called it an accident. Nora called it "fine."
When an anonymous letter arrives at Nora's museum threatening to reveal what really happened that night, the curator who has spent her career authenticating other people's stories is forced to examine her own. What she uncovers is a trail of managed truths, tilted mirrors, and the devastating possibility that the man she married is both exactly who she believes him to be and someone she has never met.
As Nora traces the events of her wedding night through a private investigator's files, a withdrawn police report, and the testimony of the woman her husband dated before her, she must confront the question she has been avoiding for five years: Is it possible to be expertly loved?
Her Perfect Wedding is a psychological thriller about marriage as a co-authored narrative, the violence of being truly seen, and the word we use to keep every door closed. It is the first book in The Ashford Wedding Trilogy, where each novel tells the same night from a different perspective, and none of their stories match.
For readers who loved The Silent Patient, The Last Thing He Told Me, and The Marriage Portrait. For anyone who has ever lain in bed next to someone they love and wondered whether the listening was real.