The Pretend Wife | Bridget Asher
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Bridget Asher's The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted. What would life be like with the one who got away? From the acclaimed author of My Husbands Sweethearts comes this bighearted, funny, fiercely perceptive tale about a happily married woman and the little white lie that changed everything. For Gwen Merchant, love has always been doled out in little packetsfrom her father, who lost himself in work after her mothers death, and from her husband, Peter, whos always been respectable and safe. But when an old college boyfriend, the irrepressible Elliot Hull, invites himself back into Gwens life with a surprising proposition, she suddenly starts questioning everything shes ever expected from love. Elliot, it turns out, is in need of a pretend wife, just for the weekend, in order to fulfill his dying mothers last wish. But as Gwen finds herself drawn into Elliots quirky, wonderful familyand uncovers a few secrets about her owna pretend relationship just might turn out to be the most real thing shes ever known.