The Almost Wife: A Novel
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hard would you fight to protect it?
Kira is engaged to the man of her dreams: he’s charming,
handsome, wealthy, and a great dad to their baby, Evie, and his thirteen-year-old
daughter, Olive. Having grown up with a troubled relationship with her mother
and mostly estranged from her father, Kira craves a close family and secure
home, and with Aaron, Evie and Olive, she almost has it. The only problem is Aaron’s
ex-wife, Madison, who’s out of control and trying to get to Olive. When Kira takes
the girls out of town to her childhood summer home and finds out that Madison has
followed them, she panics.
Between the beach and the forest on Manitoulin Island, Kira
fights to protect Olive, Evie and her fiancé, until a dark secret threatens to
unravel the life that is almost hers. With the future she has built hanging in
the balance, and her past haunting her at every turn, Kira must choose who to
believe and who she wants to be.
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GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ ’s first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Spawning Grounds was nominated for the Sunburst Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award and shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for fiction. Her thriller, The Almost Wife, hit the Canadian bestseller lists in 2021, while her latest thriller, The Almost Widow, released in 2023, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada. She taught for nearly a decade within the MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and lives in the Shuswap region of British Columbia.
