On her way to teach a class at Harvard, Eloise Hempel receives a devastating phone call: her sister and her husband have been killed in an accident. Eloise must return to Cincinnati to take their three children out of the hands of her own incapable mother. She moves back into the century- old house and, after her mother leaves, pours her own money into it. Nearly two decades later, Eloise is still in that house when their makeshift family begins to fall apart.

“Leah Stewart’s brilliantly written novel Husband and Wife is a deeply human book: funny, tender, smart, self-aware. When you read it you will laugh, you will cry, you will recognize others, you will recognize yourself.” — Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Castaways and Barefoot From the highly acclaimed author of The Myth of You and Me comes a new novel about a young mother who finds her identity rocked to the core when her writer-husband reveals his next novel about infidelity isn’t entirely fiction. Fans of Meg Wolitzer, Ayelet Waldman, and Marisa de los Santos, as well as memoirs like Happens Every Day and Perfection, will love Leah Stewart’s Husband and Wife.

Product Description: When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend—no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet.When an unexpected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that ended their friendship, Cameron doesn’t reply, despite Oliver’s urging...read more

As she investigates the kidnapping and brutal murder of Allison Avery, novice Memphis crime reporter Olivia Dale is forced to reassess her own life as she probes deep into the dark secrets of a young woman so much like herself and is drawn into a seductive and dangerous world that could threaten her own life. Reprint.