Micheline Maylor’s The Bad Wife is an intimate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage. This is a story of divorce, love, and what should have been, told in a brave and unflinching voice. Pulling the reader into a startling web of sensuality, guilt, resentment, and pleasure, this collection asks: what if you set off a bomb in your own house? What if you lose love and destroy everything you ever knew? These poems have a disarming immediacy, full of surprising imagery, dark humour, and the bold thoughts of a vibrant and flawed protagonist. Balancing a need for wildness and the space to dwell, The Bad Wife explores the taut confines of those vivid, earthly pleasures that we all know and sometimes can’t escape. I forgot the oath: Do no harm. -from “Yesterday, I Went to the Market”

Have you ever thought about what makes a good wife in our modern world? How should we define female and male roles today, when so many things have changed in our society?This raw and compelling memoir examines the life of one woman as she juggles her career with the demands of motherhood, whilst seeking a beautiful life on her own. Belinda shares the truths of her broken relationship and how she overcame her heartbreak.She lets us into her honest world of health & fitness and shows how she helps women every day to make changes to improve their lives, and avoid her mistakes. This book will encourage you to embrace every part of womanhood while making you laugh, cry and smile. Read how she has transformed her life into her very own beautiful chaos, and how you too can live your life in a brand new way, even after adversity.

From Kiki Ryder, the freshest new author to hit the erotic and fantasy romance scene comes a steamy new series detailing the adventures of one wife, and how some playful and harmless pillow talk gets taken too far, making a good wife turn bad.Now that Sheryl has had a taste of pushing the envelope with her husband Jared, and indulging herself in the pleasure of another man, with Jareds full consent and participation. Little does she know that Jared now has some ideas of his own that will push Sheryl well beyond her comfort zone.Will she feel used and shamed, or empowered after these experiences? But she had it coming after all, she's a bad wife, but yet, oh so good.

From Kiki Ryder, the freshest new author to hit the erotic and fantasy romance scene comes a steamy new series detailing the adventures of one wife, and how some playful and harmless pillow talk gets taken too far, making a good wife turn bad. When good wives turn "bad", the only thing for certain, is that things will never be the same.Sheryl wasn't a bad wife. Well, not really. Her sex life at home had been in decline for years, and it wasn't her fault that she needed something more than the rote routine she and her husband Jared had fallen into.Whether it was a desperate plea or a firm decision that she was determind to push forward with, she confesses to her husband her desires in the most graphic of details. Pushing for more, she has no idea how Jared will react. Will he be angry, bitter, resentful or even hurt? The only thing she knows is that she yearns for something more.Pushing for more, she has no idea how Jared will react. Will he be angry, bitter, resentful or even hurt? The only thing she knows is that she yearns for something more.What happens next is more than she could dream for, but she soon finds out that she may have bitten off more than she can chew as her formerly unergetic husband suddenly pushes her beyond what she may becomfortable with.But she had it coming after all, she's a bad wife, but yet, oh so good.

From the award-winning author of Safe Houses—an "intelligent, tense and sharply written espionage thriller” (Wall Street Journal) about a CIA agent and a young expat who find themselves caught up in a dangerous world, whose secrets, if revealed, could have disastrous repercussions for them both. When CIA agent Claire Saylor is told that she’ll be going undercover in Hamburg to pose as the wife of an academic who has published a controversial interpretation of the Quran’s promise to martyrs, she assumes the job is a punishment for past unorthodox behavior. But when she discovers her team leader is Paul Bridger, another Agency maverick, she realizes there may be more to this mission than meets the eye—and not just for professional reasons. Meanwhile, across town in Hamburg, Mahmoud, a recent Moroccan émigré, begins to fall under the sway of a group of radicals at his local mosque. The deeper he’s drawn into the group, the greater the danger he faces, and he is soon torn between his obligations to them and his feelings toward a beautiful Westernized Muslim woman. As Claire learns the truth about her mission, and Mahmoud grows closer to the radicals, the danger between them builds and spells disaster far beyond the CIA.

Rachel Zucker's third book of poems is a darkly comic collection that looks unsparingly at the difficulties and compromises of married life. Formally innovative and blazingly direct, The Bad Wife Handbook cross-examines marriage, motherhood, monogamy, and writing itself. Rachel Zucker's upending of grammatical and syntactic expectations lends these poems an urgent richness and aesthetic complexity that mirrors the puzzles of real life. Candid, subversive, and genuinely moving, The Bad Wife Handbook is an important portrait of contemporary marriage and the writing life, of emotional connection and disconnection, of togetherness and aloneness.

A married woman’s lust for a stranger compels her to risk everything, in this new suspense by the bestselling author of His Other Woman. It’s just a small picture in the local paper—Katie can’t explain why it sets her heart racing. But hiding the photo of local GP Joe Harvey in her bag sets in motion a chain of events that will dramatically alter her life forever. Driven by a unhealthy desire for a man she hardly knows, the mother of two begins to worm her way into Joe’s life, knowing it’s reckless but still unable to control herself. As her obsession intensifies, Katie’s world becomes increasingly stressful and she’s forced to cover her tracks by lying to everyone around her. Katie’s dancing with danger, and there will be consequences. And while she can’t live without him, Joe barely knows she exists . . . yet. Praise for Sarah Edghill’s A Thousand Tiny Disappointments “Thoroughly gripping . . . Sarah Edghill knows how to pinpoint what goes on in families.” —Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry “Accomplished . . . characters you can relate to.” —Katie Fforde, author of A Country Escape “Compelling.” —Hannah Persaud, author of The Codes of Love

NATIONAL BESTELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Monogomy brings us a "tasteful, elegant, sensuous" (The Boston Globe) novel about marriage and forgiveness. Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia—wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton—is Meri's new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Tom's chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. Soon Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, as they both reckon with the contours and mysteries of marriage: one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. With precision and a rich vitality, Sue Miller—beloved and bestselling author of While I Was Gone—brings us a highly charged, superlative novel.

In this captivating dual narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home’s previous owner, a quintessential 1950s housewife. As she discovers remarkable parallels between this woman’s life and her own, it causes her to question the foundation of her own relationship with her husband--and what it means to be a wife fighting for her place in a patriarchal society. When Alice Hale leaves a career in publicity to become a writer and follows her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house. But when she finds a vintage cookbook buried in a box in the old home's basement, she becomes captivated by the cookbook’s previous owner--1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. As Alice cooks her way through the past, she realizes that within the cookbook’s pages Nellie left clues about her life--including a mysterious series of unsent letters penned to her mother. Soon Alice learns that while baked Alaska and meatloaf five ways may seem harmless, Nellie's secrets may have been anything but. When Alice uncovers a more sinister--even dangerous--side to Nellie’s marriage, and has become increasingly dissatisfied with the mounting pressures in her own relationship, she begins to take control of her life and protect herself with a few secrets of her own.

From Kiki Ryder, the freshest new author to hit the erotic and fantasy romance scene comes a steamy new series detailing the adventures of one wife, and how some playful and harmless pillow talk gets taken too far, making a good wife turn bad. Sheryl becomes torn, indulging in new pleasures that are clearly outside the previous unspoken boundaries established by her and her husband. Pleasure, guilt, shame and a creeping empowerment are stirred up, potentially changing.... everything.