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  Mark is in a race against time to protect his family. But what will he find as he goes back to his family home?

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  If you loved reading The Girl on the Train, Behind Closed Doors and The Sister, you’ll love the suspense of The Babysitter. This unputdownable read will have you turning the pages until way after dark.

  THE SECOND WIFE

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  She made her bed. You’ll lie in it.

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  Rebecca and Nicole swore to be best friends forever. But three years after they last met up, Rebecca receives a phone call from Nicole’s devoted husband, Richard. Nicole is dead, a tragic suicide. Drowned in a river close to her family home, Richard was the one who pulled her body from the water. Now he can’t even speak about what happened.

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  While Rebecca reels from the news, she reads her friend’s last letters to her and begins to wonder if she knew Nicole at all. What secrets was she keeping from all the people who knew and loved her?

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  As Rebecca gets closer and closer to Richard, things go too far and she begins to slip into Nicole’s old life – staying in her home, sleeping in her bed… But if she’s going to become the wife Nicole never was, can she keep herself safe?

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  The book everyone’s talking about! If you loved The Girl on the Train, The Wife Between Us and The Girl Before, you’ll be totally gripped and unable to put down this twisty page-turning psychological thriller.

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  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  Massive thanks to the fabulous team at Bookouture without whose expertise, dedication and patience The Marriage Trap would never have made it onto paper. Huge thanks, too, to the cover designer. Bookouture covers are simply divine. I’ve totally adored all of mine. Special thanks to Helen Jenner for her faith in the book and loving it from outset. Without her amazing editing skills, I suspect I might have got a little lost along the way. Special thanks also to Kim Nash and Noelle Holten, the dynamic Bookouture Publicity Managers, for their hard work and unstinting support. You two are phenomenal. We would definitely be lost without you. To all the other super-supportive authors at Bookouture, I love you. Thanks for your ears when I needed them and the cheers every step of the way.

  I owe a huge debt of gratitude to all the fantastically hardworking bloggers and reviewers who have taken time to read and review my books and shout them out to the world. Your passion simply leaves me in awe. I think all authors would agree we could not do this without you. Thank you!

  Final thanks to every single reader out there for buying and reading my books. Authors write with you in mind. Knowing you have enjoyed our stories and care enough about our characters to want to share them with other readers is the best incentive ever for us to keep writing.

  Published by Bookouture in 2019

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  Copyright © Sheryl Browne, 2019

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  Sheryl Browne has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work.

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  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers.

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  eBook ISBN: 978-1-78681-895-9

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events other than those clearly in the public domain, are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Books by Sheryl Browne

  Contents

  Dedication

  KARLA

  1. KARLA

  2. JASON

  3. KARLA

  4. JASON

  5. KARLA

  6. JASON

  7. KARLA

  8. ROBERT

  9. KARLA

  10. JASON

  11. JASON

  12. KARLA

  13. JASON

  14. KARLA

  15. JASON

  16. JASON

  17. KARLA

  18. KARLA

  19. DIANA

  20. JASON

  21. KARLA

  22. KARLA

  23. JASON

  24. JASON

  25. KARLA

  26. DIANA

  27. JASON

  28. KARLA

  29. JASON

  30. DIANA

  31. JASON

  32. KARLA

  33. DIANA

  34. JASON

  35. KARLA

  36. KARLA

  37. JASON

  38. JASON

  39. KARLA

  40. DIANA

  41. JASON

  42. ROBERT

  43. KARLA

  44. KARLA

  45. JASON

  46. KARLA

  47. JASON

  48. KARLA

  Epilogue

  The Affair

  Hear more from Sheryl

  Books by Sheryl Browne

  A Letter from Sheryl

  The Babysitter

  The Second Wife

  Acknowledgements

  Copyright