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After a whirlwind romance in London, they married and moved back to New York.

Bayard comes from a long line of prosperous Danish immigrants who made their fortune in America. Annabelle grew up as a part of an old high-class family in England. Both come from old and prestigious families.

Trigger Warnings: descriptions of rape, intimate description of the feelings and trauma of rape survivorsĪnnabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil lead a dream life.

The English Wife by Lauren Willig – author’s website.

I will show my hand a little by telling you that I am definitely adding Ms. The synopsis immediately grabbed my attention and the setting (Gilded Age New York) was a huge bonus. I was immediately drawn to this novel – not only was it a mystery but also a historical fiction (my other love). Lauren Willig was not an author I was familiar with until this book appeared in the suggestions for one of the books I could choose for my Book of the Month Club box. Bay’s sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to try to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel.“It wasn’t the big decisions that set the course of one’s life it was the slow accretion of all the little ones.” But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Yes, there are rumors that she’s having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip.

"Her best yet.A dark and scintillating tale of betrayal, secrets and a marriage gone wrong that will have readers on the edge of their seats until the final breathtaking twist."-Pam Jenoff, N ew York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's TaleĪnnabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he’s the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor house in England, they had a fairytale romance in London, they have three-year-old twins on whom they dote, and he’s recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and named it Illyria.

Mystery, murder, mistaken identity, romance-Lauren Willig weaves each strand into a page-turning tapestry."-Sally Koslow, author of The Widow Waltz

"Brings to life old world New York City and London with all the splendor of two of my favorite novels, The Age of Innocence and The Crimson Petal and the White. From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The English Wife, a scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder.