My Husband's First Wife: A Novel of Letters, Lies, and the Women Who Raise Each Other

When a mysterious cream-wrapped package tied with red ribbon appears on Camille Reyes-Whitfield's porch, addressed only to her twelve-year-old stepdaughter, her perfectly rebuilt life begins to crack. The handwriting belongs to Lila - her husband Adam's first wife - the woman who supposedly died in a fiery car crash five and a half years earlier. Inside is a hand-bound book of twenty letters, each written for a specific milestone in Iris's life.
and every single letter is addressed to both the daughter and the stepmother Camille has become. As the letters expose the devastating truth about the man Camille married, she is forced to choose: protect the family she spent four years building, or help her stepdaughter find the mother who faked her own death to escape him. A gripping, emotionally charged novel about second wives, stepmothers, buried secrets, and the quiet power of the women who step up when the men in their lives fall apart.
For every woman who has ever inherited someone else's family. and discovered it was never truly hers to begin with.