Happy Wife

A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this twisty, unputdownable novel set in an ultrawealthy Florida community where looks can kill. Nora Davies doesn’t exactly fit in to Winter Park, Florida, where old-guard Floridians mix with the tax-fleeing coastal elite. Twenty-eight and barely making ends meet working at a country club, Nora feels like she’s going nowhere fast. Enter Will Somerset: a prominent forty-six-year-old lawyer, father to a teenage daughter and recently divorced. The two set Winter Park’s social;scene;agog;when they fall in love and marry after a whirlwind Cinderella-style courtship. But Winter Park is fully upended when Will disappears the morning after a birthday bash Nora throws for him. Going back and forth between Nora and Will’s romance and the search in the wake of Will’s mysterious disappearance, Nora must answer the question from all angles: Combining breathless suspense, glittering and juicy social dynamics, and an unforgettable cast of characters, <Happy Wife< is a clever and subversive novel that explores marriage, wealth, and the secrets that lurk behind closed doors.

Auteur
Meredith Lavender has spent more than two decades working as a television writer and executive producer. Most recently, she served as showrunner and executive producer on Max’s The Flight Attendant, and she is currently in development on multiple projects with A&E, Paramount+, and more.

Kendall Shores’s career spans nearly seventeen years and runs the gamut from grant writing for a non-profit museum in Orlando to communications consulting and strategy for large organizations.

Kendall and Meredith both live in Atlanta with their respective families and possibly too many dogs. If there’s such a thing.