Boston seamstress Alice Foster answers a mail-order bride advertisement looking for one thing: a true partnership. What she finds at the Double H Ranch in Texas is something else entirely. Walter Holmes is charming, orderly, and dangerous in ways that reveal themselves only slowly, in the narrowing of small freedoms and the silences that carry instructions inside them... moreBoston seamstress Alice Foster answers a mail-order bride advertisement looking for one thing: a true partnership. What she finds at the Double H Ranch in Texas is something else entirely. Walter Holmes is charming, orderly, and dangerous in ways that reveal themselves only slowly, in the narrowing of small freedoms and the silences that carry instructions inside them. When Alice discovers that Walter's first wife did not die as he claimed, and that his second wife may not have either, she understands that running is exactly what he expects. So, she does not run. She stays, she looks, and she finds every stitch of the truth he tried to bury. And Jacob Holmes, Walter's younger brother, watches from a careful distance with the look of a man who has been trying to warn someone for a very long time. The Proper Wife is a story about the courage it takes to see clearly, the patience it takes to act wisely, and the kind of partnership that can only be built between two people who mean every word they say. less
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