The Beautiful & The Wild - Peggy Townsend

Thriller

Rating: 8/10

He was her husband. The father of her child. A man everyone said was dead. Yet there he is, very much alive and very angry. And holding her prisoner.

Lizzy, separated from her child and held in a shipping container in Alaska, has lots to time to ponder what went wrong. How did it all implode so spectacularly?

Maybe she missed the red flags. Like when just after they were married, her hubby said that she would never feel more alive than when she didn’t know what was coming next.

But she needs to get free and to make that happen she is going to have to listen to his deluded reasoning for all of it. He follows a path of multiple marriages and assorted other doctrines that she must refrain from rolling her eyes at.

When she’s let out of the container, she isn’t close to her freedom. She must play a role with the other women he has brought into the circle before she is trusted enough to be left alone to make her escape.

No matter the stories we tell ourselves, jealously is a very powerful force for bad choices. And add in an enclosed space in the cold wilderness and it’s a recipe for the catastrophic.

Book Pairing(s): Girl A by Abigail Dean, The Wives by Tarryn Fisher, The Project by Courtney Summers