The Marriage Rule By Helen Monks Takhar

Published: 29/01/2026

Genres: Mystery Thriller

After you say, “I do,” there’s one more thing you must do…

A propulsive domestic thriller about what it takes to keep a marriage together, from “addictive” (People) author Helen Monks Takhar

Nine months into motherhood, Elle is struggling. Struggling to balance parenting with work, struggling to feel at home in her post-baby body, struggling to be intimate with her adoring husband, Dom. If Elle loves her job, her baby, and her handsome and successful husband, why does everything seem so hard, especially when Dom is such a helpful, hands-on dad to boot?

Elle turns to her charismatic new colleague Gabriel to get through the day, and a few too many glasses of red wine to soothe her at night. For a while the distractions work, until one night, she wakes up bleary-eyed in a hotel room next to a man who's not her husband. And he's dead.

Elle knows Dom is the only person who has any hope of helping her escape her hotel room a free woman, even if asking for his support now will destroy their future. Elle also knows she’d never have ended up in such trouble if she’d followed The Marriage Rule, the one thing she’s been told a wife needs to do…

Publisher information

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008735852
Number of pages: 352
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 26 mm
Weight: 240 g
Language: English