Happy Wife: A Read with Jenna Pick - Meredith Lavender & Kendall Shores

Happy Wife: A Read with Jenna Pick

By Meredith Lavender & Kendall Shores

  • Release Date: 2025-06-24
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4
4
From 177 Ratings

Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this twisty, unputdownable novel set in an ultrawealthy Florida community where looks can kill.

Happy Wife is one of those delicious, fun summer books that you’ll open on the beach and never put down.”—Jenna Bush Hager, Read With Jenna


Nora Davies doesn’t exactly fit in to Winter Park, Florida, where old-guard Floridians mix with the tax-fleeing coastal elite. Twenty-eight and barely making ends meet working at a country club, Nora feels like she’s going nowhere fast. Enter Will Somerset: a prominent forty-six-year-old lawyer, father to a teenage daughter, and recently divorced. The two set Winter Park’s social scene agog when they fall in love and marry after a whirlwind Cinderella-style courtship.

But Winter Park is fully upended when Will disappears the morning after a birthday bash Nora throws for him. Going back and forth between Nora and Will’s romance and the search in the wake of Will’s mysterious disappearance, Nora must answer the question from all angles: Where. Is. Will?

Combining breathless suspense, glittering and juicy social dynamics, and an unforgettable cast of characters, Happy Wife is a clever and subversive novel that explores marriage, wealth, and the secrets that lurk behind closed doors.

Reviews

  • Editing?

    2
    By 5612053
    This book is almost nutty in how the editing didn’t catch that backstory and events kept changing almost every page, such an odd thing I think would have been picked up by editors of partner writers? Of course I applaud the ability to write. Period. But the book was tonally messed up. Nobody in main character situation would not know she needed a lawyer! It’s very frustrating reading this and being a criminal defense lawyer!
  • Very easy read!

    5
    By xstitcher11
    I read Happy Wife in one day yesterday. It was fantastic, really could not put it down. Such a great talent.