Eleanor Voss is the most beloved woman in Shepherd's Creek, Tennessee. Nine years on the PTA. Thirteen years organizing the block party. A lemon pound cake that has made grown men weep. And a garden that has won every ribbon worth winning. What her neighbors don't know — what no one has ever thought to ask — is what she buries beneath the roses. In a single unbroken confession delivered across one long night, Eleanor tells you everything. All nine of them. Why each one had to go. And the one mistake she will carry to her own grave. A debut novel unlike anything you have heard before — told in real time, in the dark, by a woman who has already decided how this ends.
Sloane Merrick is a Southern writer with a background in behavioral psychology and a lifelong obsession with the gap between who people appear to be and who they actually are. She lives in Tennessee, tends a garden she refuses to describe in detail, and believes that the most dangerous stories are the ones told by women who smile while they tell them. The Good Wife's Garden is her debut novel.View all by Sloane Merrick
