The Fourth Wife

Praise for The Fourth Wife

“The Fourth Wife has everything you could want in a gothic novel—a delicious sense of burgeoning dread, a crumbling mansion filled with secrets, and a resilient young bride caught in a tangled web of deceit. Hamilton explores the historical truths of plural marriage with a nuanced touch of the supernatural, and writes with the kind of bravery and candor that will firmly establish her as an important new voice in fiction. You won’t forget this remarkable debut!” —Paulette Kennedy, bestselling author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport

“Imagine that Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca had three sister wives—and all four are living in a rundown Salt Lake City mansion with their absolute horror of a husband. That’s Linda Hamilton’s The Fourth Wife, an unnerving, nightmarish masterclass in dread and female defiance. Absolutely brilliant. I could not look away.” —Noelle W. Ihli, bestselling author of None Left to Tell

“A ghostly mystery lies at the heart of this tremendous debut. The Fourth Wife will thrill fans of historical fiction and horror equally with its haunting atmosphere and cast of unforgettable characters. Linda Hamilton is a new author to watch!” —Olivia Hawker, bestselling author of The Fire and the Ore

“The Fourth Wife serves up a new kind of gothic thrill: a tale of plural marriage, brimming with religious manipulation, the deadly secrets a house can hold, and the richly deserved and very bloody consequences from beyond. Linda Hamilton, you had me at ‘The Lord needs me to give you a commandment.’” —Emily Carpenter, author of Gothictown

“A chilling reinvention of the gothic tradition—purposeful, poignant, and utterly terrifying. Each page hums with unease, from crumbling corridors to menacing madness. Hamilton conjures a not-so-distant past where grief takes form, memory festers, and horror grows like mold in the dark. This is not the gothic of candlelight and corsets—it’s something far stranger, and far more disturbing.” —A. Rae Dunlap, USA Today bestselling author of The Resurrectionist

“Some haunts go deeper than ghosts. Vividly written by a historically-trained author, Hamilton offers a multidimensional portrait of polygamy from within the Mormon community while centering the women. Though set in the past, The Fourth Wife holds up a mirror to the present and dares us to look. A thrilling debut.” —Rachel Rueckert, author of If the Tide Turns and The Determined