The brand-new thriller from the author of The Girl Beyond the Gate.

He was your first. You won't be his last.

'Swallowing all that fear down, I press the nib of the pen to the page and start to write. Whether I die tonight or not, this letter will be my legacy. Potentially someone's saviour. My final act of rebellion.'

Every day, Mary wakes up before dawn to make breakfast from scratch. She tends the garden and feeds the animals. Every night, Mary makes sure she has dinner on the table for when her husband Cal gets home from work. She puts on his favourite lipstick and greets him with a smile. 'I've missed you.'

It's not true and he knows it. But he likes to hear it all the same.

Their cabin is hidden deep in the woods in the Scottish Highlands, and Mary doesn't remember the last time she saw another living soul. She tries not to think about her life before too much, as long as she keeps to the routine, she'll be okay. Bake, clean, cook, smile.

But lately, as her birthday approaches, and her first wrinkles appear, she notices Cal change. A scowl at dinner not being ready on time, a too tight grip as he leads her to the bedroom tells her he's noticed too.

Then she finds a stack of letters hidden under the floorboards detailing a life eerily similar to her own. They're addressed to her: 'To the next woman.'

If she's not the first to play the role of Cal's perfect wife, what happened to the wife before her?
And how long before she is next...

Perfect for fans of K.L Slater, Valerie Keoghand Freida McFadden