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The Wife Next Door: She planned to vanish. Someone rewrote the script.
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 2 2025
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
At 2:13 a.m., the sound of shattering glass jolts Claire awake. By dawn, Olivia Vale is gone. Her phone still charging, her car still in the garage, her wedding ring left behind with a smear of blood inside.
To the police, it looks like a missing-person case. To Nate, her husband-and a local patrol sergeant-it looks like trouble he can't explain away. To Claire, the neighbor who notices everything, it looks staged.
But Olivia didn't just vanish. She planned her own disappearance. Someone, however, has rewritten her script.
Now every player in this quiet suburban street is telling a different version of the truth:
Nate insists he's innocent, though evidence points otherwise.
Claire records every detail, her watchful eye crossing the line into obsession.
Cassidy, Olivia's best friend, seizes the story for her true-crime podcast.
And in the shadows, someone else is pulling strings-turning a plan of escape into a performance of control.
As suspicion spreads from house to house, the perfect neighborhood fractures. Secrets surface, loyalties crumble, and the one question nobody wants to ask becomes impossible to ignore:
When a wife disappears, who gets to tell her story?
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