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The Collector's Wife
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 26 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Gothic Suspense Romance Thriller
Elena thought she was marrying into legacy, wealth, and security.
Instead, she married into a family tradition no one survives.
When Elena moves to her husband's ancestral estate on the rocky coast of Maine, she is swept into a world of old money, rigid expectations, and unsettling silence. But behind a hidden panel in the library, she discovers a secret room filled with photographs-dozens of brides from her husband's bloodline, dating back generations.
Every woman vanished exactly three years after her wedding day.
Elena has twenty-two months left.
As she quietly investigates the fate of the former wives, accidents and illnesses begin to look like something far more deliberate. The powerful Blackthorne family controls the town, the police, and the narrative. No one questions their history.
No one survives it.
Her only ally is Dominic, the estate's guarded groundskeeper-a man with his own reasons for hating the family. As suspicion turns into desire, their growing connection becomes both dangerous and undeniable.
But uncovering the truth means exposing a century-old ritual built on control, obsession, and sacrifice. And the people protecting that legacy will kill to keep it buried.
With time running out and nowhere safe to turn, Elena must decide:
Become the next portrait on the wall...
or destroy the collection forever.
The Collector's Wife is a gripping romantic thriller filled with gothic suspense, forbidden attraction, family secrets, and deadly traditions-perfect for readers who love dark romance with high-stakes tension and shocking twists.
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