The Golden Couple
A cheating wife, a watchful husband, and a rule-breaking therapist collide in a marriage repair that hides stalking, a vanished woman, and a murder plot.
2,677-word summary · 12 min read
Tag: marriage
101 books with this tag.
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The Awakening
Edna Pontellier summers on Grand Isle and starts to want a life beyond marriage and motherhood.
2,262-word summary · 10 min read
Something in the Water
Honeymoon divers find a bag of cash and diamonds at sea, then lie until lies cost more.
1,943-word summary · 9 min read
Sometimes I Lie
Radio host Amber wakes in a coma, able to hear but not move. Her husband may not love her, and three timelines close in.
2,399-word summary · 11 min read
Olive Kitteridge
Thirteen linked stories orbit blunt Crosby teacher Olive, husband Henry and son Christopher through love, aging and Maine small-town life.
2,385-word summary · 11 min read
To Sir Phillip, With Love
Outspoken Eloise writes a grieving botanist, visits unchaperoned, and stays for twins.
2,013-word summary · 9 min read
Truly Madly Guilty
A Sydney barbecue turns when two-year-old Ruby falls in a fountain. Three couples face guilt, marriage strain, and repair.
2,892-word summary · 13 min read
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
A young mother confined for her health fixates on yellow wallpaper, plus 39 other Gilman stories on marriage and work.
2,989-word summary · 13 min read
The Wife Upstairs
A struggling dog walker falls for a wealthy widower in Alabama, but his missing wife may still be alive upstairs.
3,255-word summary · 14 min read
The Paris Wife
Hadley Richardson marries young Ernest Hemingway and follows him to 1920s Paris, fame, and heartbreak.
2,493-word summary · 11 min read
The Last Mrs. Parrish
A con artist targets a rich wife, then the marriage game turns with a hidden past.
2,018-word summary · 9 min read
Terms and Conditions
Declan must marry to inherit, so he offers his assistant a deal with rules.
2,695-word summary · 12 min read
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
Colin Bridgerton returns and discovers Penelope Featherington is Lady Whistledown.
2,388-word summary · 11 min read
Madame Bovary
Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary for romance, then seeks lovers and luxury until debts ruin them both.
2,400-word summary · 11 min read
Apples Never Fall
A retired tennis coach vanishes, and her four children rethink their family story.
2,315-word summary · 10 min read
The Wife Between Us
A jealous ex-wife stalks her replacement, but nothing in this marriage is what it seems.
2,756-word summary · 12 min read
What Alice Forgot
After a gym fall erases ten years, Alice, 39, wakes as her 29 year old self and must relearn her three kids and failing marriage as a stranger.
2,495-word summary · 11 min read
The Viscount Who Loved Me
Anthony Bridgerton vows to marry without love until Kate Sheffield challenges him at every turn.
2,666-word summary · 12 min read
The Five Love Languages
Chapman maps words, time, gifts, service, and touch through counseling stories and the empty love-tank idea.
3,122-word summary · 14 min read
Rock Paper Scissors
Amelia and Adam spend a locked anniversary weekend at Blackwater Chapel, trading letters that hide who wrote what.
3,135-word summary · 14 min read
The Duke and I
Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset fake a courtship that turns real, then face truth about children.
2,107-word summary · 9 min read
The Perfect Marriage
A defense lawyer defends her husband accused of killing his mistress.
2,084-word summary · 9 min read
The Couple Next Door
After a dinner next door, Anne and Marco find baby Cora gone and every neighbor has a motive.
2,053-word summary · 9 min read
Behind Closed Doors
Grace seems to have a perfect marriage to Jack, until her sister and a friend see the locks and rules.
2,056-word summary · 9 min read