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The Good Wive's Guide to Bleeding
Paperback
Publisher: Wind & Ink
Published: Jul 3 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What if the perfect life demanded more than you knew how to give?
Clara Whitfield arrives at The Meadows exhausted-burned out by corporate ambition, hollowed by a year of quiet desperation, and hoping a fresh start in a gated community will finally stitch her life back together. Her husband Arthur is already thriving in his new job, energized by a promotion that came impossibly fast. Their neighbors are immaculate, welcoming, impossibly content.
And yet.
The roses bloom in four days. The bread rises on command. A low hum lives in the walls, patient and warm, pulsing like a heartbeat beneath the marble kitchen island. When Clara's new friend Sarah gashes her foot on broken ceramic, the wound knits itself shut-without a single drop of blood.
By the time Clara discovers the leather-bound book hidden in the crawlspace, she's already been cooking from it for weeks. Already been feeding her family from its pages. Already been offering something she never knew she was giving.
Because the house doesn't ask for love.
It asks for what love costs.
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