Fic­tion

Behind Every Good Man

  • From the Publisher
December 12, 2023

A wronged wife goes toe to toe with her cheat­ing hus­band at the polls in this hilar­i­ous and heart-lift­ing nov­el by the best­selling author of Don’t For­get to Write.

It’s a doozy of a bad day for Bev­er­ly Dia­mond when she catch­es her hus­band, Lar­ry, in a com­pro­mis­ing posi­tion with his sec­re­tary. What’s a DC sub­ur­ban wife to do with a soon-to-be ex, two young kids, and no degree or finan­cial sup­port in 1962? Beat the louse at his own game, that’s what.

Lar­ry runs the Mary­land sen­a­to­r­i­al cam­paign for the incum­bent can­di­date pro­ject­ed to win against his younger under­dog oppo­nent, Michael Lan­dau. But Bev­er­ly has the pluck, polit­i­cal savvy, and sheer dri­ve to push Landau’s cam­paign in a suc­cess­ful new direc­tion, even if he already has a cam­paign man­ag­er who is less than pleased she has insert­ed her­self into the race.

Now it’s rival against rival. She and Michael do make a great team…maybe in more ways than one. But with the elec­tion heat­ing up, she needs to focus on one thing at a time. If Bev can con­vince Michael to go mod­ern, pay atten­tion to women’s issues, and learn how to dress him­self prop­er­ly, maybe she can show Lar­ry exact­ly how much he has under­es­ti­mat­ed her their entire mar­riage — and make her own dreams come true in the process.

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