The Marriage Rule: A Novel

By: Helen Monks Takhar

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Synopsis: After you say, &“I do,&” there&’s one more thing you must do. . . . A propulsive domestic thriller about what it takes to keep marriages together and what will tear them apart from &“addictive&” (People) author Helen Monks TakharThis Random House Book Club edition includes an author&’s note and a discussion guide.Nine months into motherhood, Elle is struggling. She&’s battling being sidelined at work, fighting to feel at home in her post-baby body and feeling pressure to be intimate with her adoring husband, Dom. Why does everything seem so hard, especially when Dom is such a helpful, hands-on dad as well as an ever-attentive husband?Elle turns to her charismatic new colleague, Gabriel, to get through the day and red wine to soothe her at night. For a while, the distractions work until one night she wakes up bleary-eyed in a hotel room next to a man who&’s not her husband. A dead man who&’s not her husband.Elle realizes Dom is the only person who can help her escape the hotel room with her future intact. She also knows she&’d never have found herself next to the dead man if she&’d followed The Marriage Rule, the one thing she&’s been told a wife needs to do to keep her marriage alive.