THE ALMOST WIFE

A page-turning commercial novel of family dynamics, secrets, and shady pasts that will grip you from page one and shock you with its ending.

Kira is engaged to the man of her dreams: he's charming, handsome, wealthy, and a great dad to their baby Evie and his 13-year-old daughter Olive. After growing up with a troubled relationship with her mother and mostly estranged from her father, Kira craves a close family and secure home, and now she almost has it. The only problem is Aaron's ex-wife, Madison, who's out of control and trying to get to Olive. When Kira brings the girls to her childhood summer home out of town only to find out that Madison has followed them, she panics.

Between the beach and the forest on Manitoulin Island, Kira fights to protect Olive, Evie, and her fiancé, until a dark secret threatens to unravel the life she almost has. With the future she has built hanging in the balance, and her past haunting her at every turn, Kira must choose who to believe and who she wants to be.

Gail Anderson-Dagartz's first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was
a finalist for the Giller Prize, winner of the UK's Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction, and the VanCity Book Prize.