Tom Anderson found the perfect replacement wife. Then the cult he belongs to discovered she had a past.
Tom prefers numbers to people. After losing his wife, he approaches remarriage logically: solve for X.
X is Melanie.
Young. Beautiful. Eager to please.
She keeps house well.
Makes a mean lasagna.
On paper, perfect.
Then Tom discovers she lied.
New Hope has rules about wives who fail to measure up. Tom can erase Melanie's past-
or replace her.
Statistically speaking, fifty percent of marriages end in divorce.
Tom would like to know the odds for murder.
Decisions, decisions.
But Melanie didn't marry Tom for love either. She wanted his money and the life that came with it.
She did not sign up to be corrected, controlled, or quietly replaced.
Tom thinks he married a liar.
Melanie thinks she married a fool.
New Hope thinks it can control them both.
At least one of those assumptions is going to be fatal.
The Replacement Wife is a wickedly dark psychological thriller about a cult obsessed with perfection, two manipulative spouses, and a marriage where divorce may be the safest way out.