The First Wife's Secret

“I couldn't put it down. If I wasn't reading it I was thinking about it!”⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ -Goodreads
"A brilliant read, had me engaged from the start!"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ -Booksirens
"Sucked me in from the beginning and did not let go!"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ -Netgalley

“I’m glad you’re all here today." My father raises his glass of champagne high. "Because there's something I've been wanting to share with you."
The way my stepmother’s looking at him, I can tell right away Dad’s gone off-script. He looks out over the crowd and rubs his hand across his sweat-beaded forehead. He's shaking. Emotion, or just the heat of this scorching afternoon? And then he looks my way - his glance is absolutely piercing - and suddenly his knees buckle. The glass drops from his hand, smashing like a grenade in an explosion of deafening silence.
My father is lying face-forward in the grass.
"Somebody call an ambulance," a voice shrieks.
And the world as I know it ends.

Dinah Spencer is back in her childhood home for one stressful weekend: it's the twenty-five-year anniversary of her father’s marriage to his second wife, Dinah’s stepmother. Those twenty-five years haven’t all been happy ones for middle child Dinah, but she’s getting ready to put the past behind her, keeping the bonds of family strong for her daughter Josie’s sake - until her beloved father collapses in the middle of an emigmatic anniversary speech.

Now, youngest daughter Lottie Spencer must struggle to keep her family afloat in the wake of her father’s shocking cardiac arrest. But with her father lying unconscious in the hospital, this family's fraying at the seams–and suddenly it seems like everyone here has secrets. As Lottie begins untangling the threads of her family's complicated past, she starts to close in on what might be the most explosive revelation of all: the long-buried secret of beautiful Bonnie Spencer, her father's first wife…

Whose secrets would you keep, to protect the family you love? Family secrets abound in this gripping, suspenseful, and ultimately uplifting page-turner about buried pasts, little white lies, and the twists and turns that finally lead us home. Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, Kerry Lonsdale, Emma Davies, and Nicole Trope.