The Senator's Wife
is Sloane Chase who lost a husband and his cousin on the same day two years ago
in a murder suicide. Sharing grief with the cousin’s widower, Senator Whit
Montgomery, the two eventually marry, giving themselves a second chance at love
in this thriller from the sister team, Liv Constantine, due out in late May.
Sloane has long suffered from lupus, an auto-immune
disease, that may be the cause of her need for a hip replacement. As an active
D.C. philanthropist, Sloane doesn’t like the idea of being sidelined with a
six-week recovery. Her husband puts in place the health care worker/personal
assistant, Athena Karras, to assist his new wife with both her physical
recovery and her work in a charitable foundation she created with her late
husband Robert.
Under Athena’s care, Sloane seems to go downhill as
her lupus flares in response to her recent surgery. Athena is always making her
teas and smoothies, and Sloane is reacting in such a way that leads her to
believe that Athena is trying to poison her, especially when she learns Athena
is dining with Whit each evening in Sloane’s place as she takes her meals in
her room and goes to sleep early since she is so ill.
Sloane starts wondering if Whit’s late wife was right
about Whit being a philanderer, and she eventually thinks that Athena and Whit
are working together to get rid of Sloane so that Whit will inherit her
fortune. Yet, nothing could be further from the truth! Readers will not see
this ending coming.
This unputdownable thriller moves quickly, and the
twists are shocking, just what you would expect from these authors. Liv
Constantine is the pen name for Lynne and Valerie Constantine who spend hours
plotting their novels using Facebook and email as they live three states apart.
The Senator’s Wife is one of their best yet.
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