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The Second Wife
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Rachel Wynn has been married to Daniel for eleven years.
Then another woman knocks on her door.
Her name is Imogen Cross.
And she says Daniel is her husband too.
Imogen has the proof.
A marriage certificate. Wedding photographs. Joint accounts. Years of messages. A daughter who calls him Dad.
Rachel has exactly the same things.
Before either woman can demand an explanation, Daniel disappears.
Then the police discover something impossible.
Daniel Wynn does not legally exist.
His passport is genuine. His tax records are genuine. His employment history stretches back decades. His marriages are documented. His children are registered.
But somewhere beneath all that paperwork, Daniel himself appears to have been manufactured.
Rachel and Imogen should hate each other.
Instead, comparing their supposedly separate lives becomes the only way to uncover his.
Their search leads to Continuity-a hidden system capable of creating complete human identities through ordinary institutions: schools, mortgages, marriages, medical records and children.
And Daniel wasn't merely hiding inside it.
He came from it.
As records begin changing and their own children are assigned alternative histories, Rachel and Imogen discover that Continuity can do far more than invent a person.
It can replace one.
Another mother can own your house.
Another woman can become your children's legal parent.
Another man can inherit your husband's name.
And once the system decides the new version is more believable than you are, proving you exist may no longer be enough.
Two wives went looking for the truth about one husband.
What they uncover could erase all of them.
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