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The Woman Three Streets Away: One Obsession Ended in Murder. Now Her Husband Was the Suspect - and So Was She.
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 13 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Marlow Kincaid is a woman who deals in structural integrity. As a highly successful historic restoration architect, she has spent her entire life fixing what other people have broken. She knows how to reinforce a sagging roof, how to spot a rotting floorboard, and how to build impenetrable walls. She thought she applied those same careful, load-bearing principles to her marriage.
For eight years, Marlow and her charming, warm-hearted husband, Reid, have lived an idyllic life in a beautifully restored seaside Victorian home on the rugged Massachusetts coast. Reid is the kind of man everyone loves-a brilliant landscape architect who leaves warm towels on the bed, rescues stray animals, and cannot stand the thought of anyone disliking him. But his desperate need to be adored is about to become a fatal flaw.
It starts with innocent stories about a new coworker at his design firm. Lorraine Ashcroft is small, fragile, and trapped in a toxic relationship. She needs a friend. She needs a savior. Reid, ever the hero, steps in. But Marlow, watching from the periphery, sees the dangerous pattern forming before her husband does. She recognizes the breathless, manipulative texts arriving at two in the morning. She recognizes the weaponized fragility of a woman building a dark, terrifying delusion.
Then, the obsession crosses the property line.
Lorraine buys a house exactly three streets away. She starts showing up in Marlow's grocery aisle. She leaves taunting gifts on the porch. The marriage Marlow painstakingly built begins to rot from the inside out, hollowed out by her husband's cowardice and a stalker who refuses to let go.
And then, on a freezing Tuesday morning in November, Lorraine's body is pulled from the charcoal-grey water of the commercial boat docks.
Enter Detective Holden Cavanaugh. A quiet, dark-coated widower with eyes like weak tea, Holden is a man who has stopped being lied to. When he arrives on Marlow's porch to ask for her timeline, she realizes a horrifying truth: the police think she killed her husband's stalker. Worse, as Reid's alibi crumbles and his alibis turn into frantic, panicked deflections, Marlow realizes that the man sleeping in the bed next to her might be a murderer.
Trapped in an isolated house with a husband she no longer recognizes, Marlow finds an unlikely lifeline in the very detective trying to put her behind bars. As the investigation tightens like a noose, the simmering, slow-burn tension between Marlow and Holden becomes undeniable. He is the only man who sees her exactly as she is-not as a suspect, not as a victim, but as a woman fighting to survive the collapse of her entire world.
The Woman Three Streets Away is a gripping, unputdownable psychological thriller that masterfully weaves domestic suspense with a deeply emotional, slow-burn romance.
Packed with dark secrets, shocking plot twists, and a smart, fiercely capable female protagonist, this is a masterful story of fatal obsession, marriage betrayal, and the terrifying realization that the most dangerous monsters are often the ones who pack your lunches and plant your garden.
Perfect for readers who crave breath-stealing domestic thrillers, complex murder mysteries, and intense romantic suspense that will keep you turning pages late into the night. Find out what happens when the walls finally come down.
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