Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
She buried her husband seven years ago. Now another woman has invited her to his funeral.Clara Vale has built a quiet life above her furniture workshop, keeping the worst of her marriage packed away with the papers she should have shown someone. Then an expensive white envelope arrives. Inside is a funeral invitation bearing her husband’s face, a stranger’s name, and the words Clara whispered at his grave.At secluded Alder House, she meets Elise, the second widow. Elise has her own reasons for wanting answers-and for suspecting Clara. Their husband’s oldest friend insists he can explain everything. A housekeeper is searching for someone who never came home. And the evidence hidden among a dead man’s possessions threatens to implicate both women.As a private memorial turns into a dangerous reckoning, Clara must face the choices that helped her husband deceive her. To uncover whom she buried and what happened beside the lake, she will have to trust the woman who took her place-before someone forces them both back into silence.The Second Widow’s Invitation is a compact, standalone psychological thriller about a double life, an uneasy alliance, and the price of telling the truth. For adult readers who enjoy domestic suspense, flawed characters, and a mystery with a resolved ending.