The Last Wife

When Olivia, a waitress with a talent for painting she never had time to use, meets Lachlan Gibson, everything arrives at once: the wedding, the beautiful house in Rosford, the freedom to paint. It is the life she was never going to have.

Then come the rules — small at first, then not small. The accidents that keep almost happening to her. The neighbours who change the subject when Lachlan's late wife comes up. Olivia has to work out whether she is losing her grip or being managed, and how much of the house she is actually allowed to see.

A psychological thriller in the Rebecca mould, published by Inkubator Books in 2025: short chapters, an isolated wife, and a husband whose charm is the point.