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Rich, bored and ambitious. What a combination! That's exactly what the wives of Hunting Hills, Ohio are, and it's deadly. Well, maybe not deadly but it sure can cause a lot of trouble when women have too much money and not enough to do.
Take, for instance, Marti Denton. Never mind the fact that she already has a husband of her own; just when she has decided that John Harding is the man for her, he has the audacity to run off to Prague and get married. It's bad enough that he marries just when she's discovered her true feelings for him; he also had to go and marry a big, gawky redhead who is definitely not the Hunting Hills type!
Marti can't for the life of her figure out what John sees in the Amazonian Claire Stark. After all, while Marti has made a career out of fitness, beauty and shopping, Claire doesn't seem to devote any care to her appearance at all. She also has a career as a journalist. Gasp. What on earth is John thinking?
The presence of John's wife, however, doesn't deter Marti from launching her campaign to win his heart. Why let a little thing like a marriage stand in the way of true love when everyone knows that marriages are meant to last only as long as the money does?
Claire is blissfully unaware of Marti's penchant for her husband and accepts Marti's offer of friendship. She also has to deal with an elitist mother-in-law, John's ex-wife Boots, and his stepdaughter Ingrid, as well as a strange assortment of Hunting Hills wives who are all carbon copies of one another. Claire struggles to find her niche in this strange plastic world as she settles into married life with John.
When scandals such as a lesbian affair, embezzlement and affairs galore rock the quiet streets of Hunting Hills, mayhem prevails and everyone wonders if the secret lives of fortunate wives are going to be plastered all over the front page for all and sundry to see.
Sarah Strohmeyer's THE SECRET LIVES OF FORTUNATE WIVES is a pleasant and entertaining read, which gives us a glimpse into how the other half lives and reminds us that appearances are deceiving and that things are not always what they seem.
--- Reviewed by Amie Taylor
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