The Missing Husband

The Missing Husband
Amanda Brooke

Is not knowing worse than knowing the truth? The next stunning novel from Richard and Judy pick, Amanda BrookeHe has a secret…Jo is five months pregnant with the baby she always wanted, and on the surface she has the perfect marriage to David, the love of her life. The only thing marring her happiness is the secret she’s hiding from her husband.She told a lie…Then David disappears and there doesn’t seem to be any trace of him. Did the secrets inside his marriage chase him away? Or something much worse?Would you rather know the whole truth or nothing at all?

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Source ISBN: 9780007511365

Ebook Edition © July 2015 ISBN: 9780007511372

Version: 2015-04-17

Dedication (#u8eb7d500-1860-53ed-9e77-063a6ba9f7cf)

To my mum, Mary Hayes

‘Gone – flitted away,

Taken the stars from the night and the sun from the day!

Gone, and a cloud in my heart’

—Alfred Tennyson

Contents

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Title Page (#ucd0b2773-869f-537e-b4ab-cde41b9893c4)

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph (#u504cbde2-c650-5786-bbd3-cc7bc00fbf8b)

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20