Publisher: Avon Books UK
Release date: 5 June 2025
Back cover blurb: Welcome to Lowbridge. Where secrets hide behind every door… When newly divorced Jude arrives in the small town of Lowbridge, she is soon drawn to widower Will, the father of her young daughter's best friend. But Will's past is shrouded in tragedy, with questions that no one knows the answer to – and after two tragedies tore his life apart in just a few short years, gossip and rumours abound about what really happened to the women he loved. As whispers of murder surround Will, Jude becomes determined to uncover the truth – and with her own father's tragic fate haunting her, she refuses to let another innocent man suffer. Yet in Lowbridge the darkness runs deep, and nothing is as it seems. Can Jude protect Will from a community out for blood? Or will she become the next victim in this web of deceit? Because whilst one dead wife is tragic, two starts to look like murder…
I adore this author's work and this novel is no exception. In fact, it might be her best yet.
Jude is new to the area and thrilled when her daughter Betsey makes friends with with Milly.
Will, Milly's Father is and Jude become close immediately with an obvious mutual attraction.
Jude knows that she shouldn't sleep with him, a man that she barely knows. But she can't help herself.
She gets immediate judgement from the other Mother's, they are all suspicious of Will. His first wife died, and his previous partner Robyn is missing, presumed dead.
Jude doesn't want to believe that Will had anything to do with either of these tragedies, but the close knit Mother's group that Jude can't quite penetrate does.
Then suddenly she is let into the inner circle but quickly determines that these are people she does not wish to associate with. They are not her kind of people, she doesn't like the way that they talk about Will and his presumed guilt.
But they shouldn't be so judgemental because none of them are innocent and they all have secrets that they want to remain hidden.
And one of them might be deadly...
It's always the Husband is available now via Amazon online and all good book shops.
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