Good Husbands Go Home

Celeste Arden restores damaged paintings by day. At night, she gives unfaithful husbands one final chance to go home.The men who refuse disappear, leaving behind secret accounts, invented lovers, and evidence of lives abandoned by choice.

Celeste has spent years perfecting the stories that explain them-until journalist Gabriel Rowan begins searching for his missing friend.

Gabriel is married, separated, and dangerously skilled at making people feel understood. He is also the first man Celeste cannot classify. As his estranged wife, Camille, draws boundaries neither of them can ignore, Detective Tessa Keene connects vanished husbands, fabricated women, and the respectable institutions that knew their secrets.
Then a new death copies Celeste's private signature but breaks her rules.

Someone else has entered the system, and the next test is aimed at the people Celeste cannot reduce to evidence. To stop the copycat, she must surrender the truth she has controlled for years-and confront what her version of justice has done to the women she claimed to protect.

Good Husbands Go Home is a morally charged psychological thriller about marriage, obsession, accountability, and the stories people build to survive betrayal.