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For Worse

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Wait Until Dark meets Gone Girl in For Worse, a debut thriller that pulls the reader deep into a dark web of sinister plots for marital revenge.

Ellie is leaving her husband ... again.

After twenty-two years of marriage and an unsuccessful separation, she can't take it anymore. On the surface, she has a picture-perfect relationship. Jeff has been a steadfast spouse. But what seems like loyalty is in reality an obsessive desire for control. Ellie is slowly losing her sight, which means she needs more and more assistance, and Jeff will stop at nothing to ensure she feels helpless and reliant on him alone.

Determined to escape her psychologically abusive marriage, Ellie turns to an online chat room full of like-minded women in the throes of divorce. Despite their anonymity, these women quickly become Ellie's closest confidantes. The chat room is a refuge, a place to which Ellie can retreat for solace and support.

Jeff continues to be manipulative and cruel, using Ellie's failing vision to gaslight her into questioning reality itself. Desperate for freedom, she sinks deeper into the online world and is drawn into the dark web, where she discovers a group of women with a shocking solution for ending a marriage.

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      March 1, 2024
      After twenty-two years of marriage to Jeff, Ellie Smalls is exhausted. A cruel, sociopathic man, he has trapped her into staying with him by exploiting her disability. Ellie has retinitis pigmentosa, which is slowly eroding her vision. She tried to leave him once, but it didn't stick. Now she yearns to escape again. Looking for support, she joins a message board called Divorced Women over Fifty. Her new friends encourage her to try the divorce again, but Ellie needs to gather the strength. As Jeff continues to follow and control her, insisting she needs him due to her condition, Ellie leans hard on her group. But even her friends have secrets, and Ellie finds herself drawn into a dangerous game. This is a slow-burn story that sticks close to Ellie's emotions; the reader feels gaslighted along with the protagonist. Sections written from Jeff's point of view, even flashing back to the first time they met, are chilling. Fans of B.A. Paris, Greer Hendricks, and Sarah Pekkanen will inhale this page-turning debut.

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