Dear agent,
Cast-aside Wife is a high heat dark adult fantasy about a woman betrayed by the man she loves, but who refuses to give up her love for him.
Hated by her father, Lady Norena wants nothing more than a family with her lover, Lord Ivar. Yet when she becomes pregnant to force his hand, he betrays her by marrying another. Her unborn child becomes the only person who can’t abandon her and she sets out to protect him no matter the cost, starting with a strategic marriage to her lover’s brother.
But as Norena tries to build a family for her son, her husband brings home a witch-consort who not only takes her place in his bed, but harms her son.
Norena vows to get rid of the witch when a vision shows her son dying at the hand of an unfamiliar young man. Now everyone who might become her son’s future murderer is the target.
Each attempt to defy fate costs Norena more of her humanity, until she must choose between the man she ruined herself for and the future for her son she never dreamed he could have.
Set in a 19th century Scandinavian inspired world, this story reimagines Serena Joy-like perspective, but with magic.
It will appeal to readers drawn to the trauma-driven moral descent of Rin in R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War and lovers of arranged marriages and betrayals of Danielle L. Jensen’s The Bridge Kingdom with a touch of dark magic of Heather Walter’s Malice.
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