He wanted a wife he could control. Gina came looking for a man she could use.
Pine Lake, 1953. When Joel answers a mail-order bride ad in the Farmers' Almanac, he expects a grateful woman who will keep his house, follow his rules, and ask no questions.
Instead, he gets Gina.
Beautiful, ambitious, and dangerously persuasive, Gina has spent her life being told she possesses a gift: the power to make any man fall at her feet. She has no intention of becoming the obedient housewife Joel ordered. Marriage is simply the quickest route to the life she wants-and Joel is the only thing standing in her way.
Except Joel is not the easy mark she expected.
He watches too closely. He lies too easily. And he did not send for a wife because he was lonely.
Now every touch is leverage, every promise is a trap, and husband and wife are locked in a private war neither intends to lose.
Gina came prepared to play the perfect wife.
She did not come prepared to die.
In Mail Order Bride, bestselling author Britney King delivers a propulsive, deliciously unhinged psychological thriller where seduction is a weapon, marriage is a trap, and the only way out may be murder.