My Husband’s Wife by Carla Kovach-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 8, 2025

Five years ago I buried my husband. Today I saw him with his new wife.

‘Thank you for agreeing to be our wedding planner. Theo is on his way,’ Madison says as we meet to plan her dream wedding. The moment her fiancé enters the room, a newborn baby in his arms, my whole world shifts and I grab hold of my desk to stop myself from falling.

Theo shakes my hand as he introduces himself, but I already know who he is. He’s my husband. The man I thought had died five years ago.

‘Lovely to meet you, Eva,’ he says, carefully avoiding my frozen stare. I’d recognise his smooth voice anywhere.

I want to scream, ask him why he’s doing this to me. But I know just how good a liar my husband is. And he knows my darkest secret. I can’t risk him destroying everything I’ve worked so hard for.

At the end of the meeting, I watch the happy little family walk away, and I don’t miss Theo’s eyes staring at me just a second too long. He knows I’m onto him. But only I know what I’m going to do next…

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REVIEW:MY HUSBAND’S WIFE by Carla Kovach is a contemporary, adult, psychological thriller focusing on three women connected by loss and death.

Told from three omniscient third person perspectives (Eva, Madison, Nicole) MY HUSBAND’S WIFE, told in three parts, follows Eva as she embarks on a new life, a new husband and a new job five years after the death of her first husband Hugo, but as the resident wedding planner for a local venue, one of Eva’s first clients is a young woman whose husband-to-be Theo, is the doppleganger for her late husband Hugo. Determined to uncover the truth, Eva launches an ill-conceived campaign of discovery only to be accused of madness as she gets closer to the truth. Trying to convince everyone, including Theo’s fiancé Madison, that all is not right, someone else is adding fuel to the proverbial fire, someone who knows more than anyone could have ever imagined.

The world building follows several intersecting pathways as Eva, Madison and Nicole’s odyssey of discovery pulls not only Madison’s fiancé Theo, but Eva’s new husband Zach down the rabbit-hole of secrets and lies, murder and madness. Eva’s past is mired in psychological issues, and the inconsistent information and contradiction forces the reader to deviate between honesty and lies, acting as their own investigator and detective. There is plenty of redundancy and duplication especially between Eva and Madison’s POV as the events overlap with one another., the conflict resolution felt like a rush to the finish.

MY HUSBAND’S WIFE is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, madness and murder, acceptance and moving on. The slow building premise is twisted and tragic; the characters are anxious, vulnerable and often TSTL as they ignore the copious number of red flags and obvious lies but saying that, there would not be a story if everything was smooth !

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Reviewed by Sandy