The Fourth Wife

Summary

In this deliciously chilling Gothic novel, a young Mormon woman is haunted by a malevolent presence in the house she shares with her new husband and his other wives—and she must unravel the manor’s gruesome history before it repeats itself …

Salt Lake City, Utah, 1882: Hazel Russon knows she’s supposed to suppress her sinful dreams of a monogamous life with her sweetheart, and her desire for the freedom to play her beloved piano. Every Mormon woman’s duty is to live obediently and meekly, devoted to her husband and her calling as a sister wife. Her eternal salvation depends upon it.

Commanded to become the fourth wife of a man she’s never met, Hazel is relieved that Jacob Manwaring is attentive and handsome. However, she is shocked to discover that instead of living separately as is custom, all of Jacob’s wives and children live in the same house—a large, dilapidated manor that inexplicably fills Hazel with dread.

Drawing on little-known Mormon folklore, this fascinating, suspense-filled historical novel debut is by turns darkly romantic, spine-tingling, and wholly unforgettable.

“Imagine that Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca had three sister wives—and all four are living in a rundown Salt Lake City mansion with their absolute horror of a husband. That’s The Fourth Wife, an unnerving, nightmarish masterclass in dread and female defiance. Absolutely brilliant. I could not look away.”—Noelle W. Ihli, bestselling author of None Left to Tell