Baba Segi's fourth wife, the young, college-educated Bolanle, sends his household into turmoil, causing his other three wives to become jealous and resentful and to plot her downfall.
Secret Lives of Second Wives
โ Scribed by Catherine Todd
- Publisher
- Diversion Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 143 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
"What's the opposite of premonition? There are people who 'know' things in advance, or say they do. I am not one of them. In fact, I frequently don't 'know' something even after it's already happened.... All of which is a roundabout way of saying that when my well-ordered life started unraveling, despite ample hints and warnings, I didn't have a clue."
After more than a decade alone, attorney Lynn Bartlett was ready to shake up her reliably comfortable life. So when successful, kind-hearted Jack Hughes--with his home in Silicon Valley (the perfect place to launch her new law practice), his safely remarried ex-wife, and his two grown children ("They love you already")--proposed, it seemed like a dream come true. After all, how hard could it be? All you had to do was be nice to everybody and you'd all get along.
Welcome to the perilous world of the second wife, where nothing turns out quite as expected. With an unemployed, unmotivated stepson who declares he's...
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