The Marriage Pact
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  • Published: 28 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780718186135
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $26.00

The Marriage Pact

The bestselling thriller for fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR

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28 May 2018
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27 Jul 2017
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Imagine if the marriage of your dreams became your worst nightmare

Alice and Jake are the perfect couple - sort of. On the day of their wedding, a stranger offers them the chance to join a mysterious group, known as The Pact. With its promise of a lifelong marriage of happiness, Jake and Alice are persuaded to accept. But then one of them breaks the rules.

Alice and Jake are about to discover that, like marriage, The Pact is for life. The members will go to any lengths to ensure nobody leaves - until the marriage of their dreams becomes their worst nightmare. Under The Pact, 'Till death us do part' has a whole new meaning . . .
  • Published: 28 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780718186135
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Michelle Richmond

Michelle Richmond is the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog, No One You Know, and The Marriage Pact. Her award-winning stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, Playboy, The Oxford American, and elsewhere. She has been a James Michener Fellow, and her fiction has received the Associated Writing Programs Award and the Mississippi Review Prize. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Michelle lives with her husband and son in San Francisco, where she is at work on her next novel.

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Praise for The Marriage Pact

A brilliant premise, tautly plotted and deftly written

J P Delaney, bestselling author of The Girl Before

Beware. This book will keep you up all night, while making you second guess everything you know and everyone you've ever loved

Lisa Gardner, Number One bestselling author of Right Behind You

Gripping, thought-provoking and irresistible

Dean Koontz, Number One bestselling author of The Silent Corner

A twisting, suspenseful, keep-you-up-all-night thriller

Lisa Unger, bestselling author of The Red Hunter

This sometimes disturbing, always thought-provoking, stunner of a novel will keep you reading far too late into the night

Karen Dionne, author of The Marsh King's Daughter

A daringly original novel about the best and worst of love

Cara Buckley, author of The Deepest Secret

Clever and original - as smart as it is scary

Gin Phillips, author of Fierce Kingdom

A terrifying thriller that distils modern marriage down to its confusing core

Nina Sadowsky, author of Just Fall

Truly chilling . . . It ranks with The Stepford Wives and Gone Girl as a terrifying look at what it really means to say 'I do'

Joseph Finder, bestselling author of The Switch

A creepy and engrossing tale

Booklist

First class suspense! You won't be able to turn the pages fast enough

Paula Daly, bestselling author of The Mistake I Made

It's a high-concept, fast-moving thriller . . . a gripping and intriguing read

Sunday Mirror

A page-turner - but probably not one for your honeymoon! Plenty of suspense, pacy and well written

Grazia

A smart, searing and frightening look at modern love

Today.com

A nail-biter . . . destined for the top of summer reading lists. Recommended as a fresh voice for readers of Gillian Flynn or Ruth Ware

Library Journal

An undeniably creepy web of lies, deceit and consequences

San Jose Mercury News

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

Karen Perry, bestselling author of Girl Unknown

A thought-provoking and nail-biting pick for the Richard and Judy Autumn 2017 Book Club . . . A pacey, page-turner of a novel

Richard & Judy Book Club

Pacey, well-written and refreshingly unique, this is a very smart thriller

Heat

It kept me guessing to the last page . . . I devoured it

Helen Callaghan, bestselling author of Everything is Lies