The Marriage Pact
Pages: 448
The bestselling psychological thriller that asks, "How far would you go to save your marriage?"
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"Very suspenseful...Compulsively readable" Bookriot
Newlyweds Jake and Alice are offered membership in an exclusive society that promises members will never divorce. Signing The Pact seems the ideal start to their marriage. Then one of them breaks the rules.
"A smart, searing, frightening look at modern love." Today
“The Marriage Pact ranks with GONE GIRL as a terrifying look at what it really means to say ‘I do.’”—Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of The Switch
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"This fast-paced nail-biter...raises thoughtful questions about individual agency and marital commitment. A fresh voice for readers of Gillian Flynn or Ruth Ware." Library Journal, starred review
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"Pacey, well-written and refreshingly unique, this is a very smart thriller." Heat Magazine
"A fun, can't-stop-eating-the-potato-chips premise..." The New York Times
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About THE MARRIAGE PACT
Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once a singer in a well-known rock band, is now a successful lawyer. Jake is a partner in an up-and-coming psychology practice. After receiving an enticing wedding gift from one of Alice’s prominent clients, they decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as The Pact.
The goal of The Pact seems simple: to keep marriages happy and intact. And most of its rules make sense. Always answer the phone when your spouse calls. Exchange thoughtful gifts monthly. Plan a trip together once per quarter. . . .
Never mention The Pact to anyone.
Alice and Jake are initially seduced by the glamorous parties, the sense of community, their widening social circle of like-minded couples.
And then one of them breaks the rules.
The young lovers are about to discover that for adherents to The Pact, membership, like marriage, is for life. And The Pact will go to any lengths to enforce that rule. For Jake and Alice, the marriage of their dreams is about to become their worst nightmare.
From Michelle Richmond, the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog.
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Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author wrote:The Marriage Pact is a tense, twisting, quirky novel of growing dread—and a love story with a richly imagined relationship between a wife and husband. Michelle Richmond looks with a gimlet eye at our therapy-obsessed culture...Gripping, thought-provoking, and irresistible.
Booklist wrote:“Riveting psychological suspense! This book will keep you up all night, while making you second-guess everything you know and everyone you’ve ever loved
Marisha Pessl on The New York Times Book Review wrote:Creepy and engrossing . . . [The Marriage Pact takes] readers deep into the heart of a marriage and exposes some of the darker drives, such as possession and control, that can lurk within even the most harmonious of unions.
Today.com wrote:A fun, can’t-stop-eating-the-potato-chips kind of premise
The Sunday Mirror wrote:A smart, searing and frightening look at modern love
Lisa Unger wrote:A high-concept, fast-moving thriller . . . a gripping and intriguing read
Gin Phillips wrote:Michelle Richmond is, simply put, a great storyteller. And The Marriage Pact, without gimmicks or tricks, is a twisting, suspenseful, keep-you-up-all-night thriller. But it’s more than that, too. It’s a deep, insightful, nearly voyeuristic view into modern marriage—what brings us together, what keeps us together, what tears us apart. A smart, engrossing, scary read!
Karen Perry, author of Girl Unknown wrote:Clever and original—as smart as it is scary.
Grazia wrote:An absolutely riveting, spine-tingling and frightening read. A roller-coaster of a novel, an audacious mix of a high-concept thriller with gorgeous writing
Hellen Callaghan, bestselling author of The Drowning Girls wrote:A page-turner - but probably not one for your honeymoon! Plenty of suspense, pacy and well written
Cara Buckley, bestselling author of The Deepest Secret wrote:It kept me guessing to the last page...I devoured it.
A daringly original novel about the best and worst of love
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