Showing results for "the good wife" in Literature & Fiction

Tom, my husband, is always watching, controlling my every move. He chooses my clothes, my hairstyle, even instructing what and how much I’m allowed to eat – just ten measly mouthfuls. I’ve become isolated from those I love, forbidden to work and stuck at home to fulfil his every whim. My identity along with my life is long gone. I am slowly suffocating but I know Tom will never, ever let me leave alive. A chance encounter with Savannah changes everything. Tom couldn’t tear his eyes away from her. Could she be my saviour?

When married off aged 12 to an elderly farmer, Eleanor Cornfed, who's constantly told to seek redemption for her many sins, quickly realizes it won't matter what she says or does, God is not on her side—or any poor woman's for that matter.

Everything about Adeline Copplefield is a lie . . . To the world Mrs Copplefield is the epitome of Victorian propriety: an exemplary society lady who writes a weekly column advising young ladies on how to be better wives.

All marriages have their challenges, right? But as I watch my husband being put into the back of a cop car, I find myself wondering if I ever knew him at all. Could handsome, easygoing Theo really have killed a girl on our block? Could I have got the sweet, loving father, who makes up lullabies to sing my baby to sleep, so wrong?

John and Marsha are still very much in love after a few short years of marriage, leading a quiet life based upon strict conservative values. They weren't looking to change anything, when a happenstance newspaper story turns their lives upside down. A journey of rediscovery is set in motion - of themselves, each other, and the roles they were raised to play.

Born in 1832 in Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was best known for Little Women, her phenomenal bestseller loosely based on her childhood experiences with her own sisters. Adapted numerous times for stage and screen, it is dramatised here alongside her follow-up novel Good Wives and the thrilling sensation story A Marble Woman.

Once accused of witchcraft, Martha Spicer is now free from the shadow of the gallows and lives a safe and happy life with her husband, Jacob. But when Jacob heads north to accompany his master, he warns Martha to keep her healing gifts a secret, to keep herself safe, to be a good wife. Martha loves Jacob, but without him there to protect her, she soon comes under the suspicious eye of the wicked Steward Boult, who’s heard of her talent and forces her to attend to him. If she refuses, he promises to destroy the good life she has built for herself with Jacob.

Melanie Hale is a devoted mother to her two children, a diligent caregiver to her ailing mother-in-law and a trusted neighbor in their wealthy Louisiana community. Above all, she’s a loving partner to her wonderful husband, Collin. Then there are the parts of herself that Mel keeps hidden. She’s exhausted, worried and unfulfilled. So much so that one night, after a writers’ group meeting, Mel begins an affair with a successful local author named Luke.

Handsome anesthesiologist Neel is sure he can resist his family’s pleas that he marry a "good" Indian girl. With a girlfriend and a career back in San Francisco, the last thing Neel needs is an arranged marriage. But that’s precisely what he gets. His bride, Leila, a 30-year-old teacher, comes with her own complications. They struggle to reconcile their own desires with others’ expectations in this story of two people, two countries, and two ways of life that may be more compatible than they seem.

One evening in early August, while mashing potatoes for dinner, Connie McColl decides she’s had enough. Sixty-six-year-old wife and grandmother, Connie packs a bag, gets in her little green car and drives off on a journey from England to Scotland to rediscover lost friends and herself.

I know what my husband would say: that I have too much time on my hands; that I need to keep myself busy. That I need to take my medication. Empty nest syndrome, he tells his friends at the pub, his mother. He's always said I have a vivid imagination. Marta and Hector have been married for a long time – so long that she finds it difficult to remember her life before him. He has always taken care of her, and she has always done everything she can to be a good wife.

Following her critically acclaimed narration of Little Women Part One, narrator Anne Undeland picks up the story from where it left off with Good Wives aka Little Women Part Two. Three years after the curtain closed on the first book, we're brought back into the March family fold, opening with Meg’s wedding. No longer little girls dreaming of “castles in the air”, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are now young women, each with her own share of joy and heartache, and each with her own path to forge.

I love my husband and I am totally devoted to him. So what I am supposed to say when he asks me to f--k him and his friend? Well, the good wife becomes a hot slut wife in no time at all. Who am I to turn down two hard cocks? This collection of five explicit XXX wife-share erotica stories will keep you wet for hours lusting after your husband's friends. Warning: This audiobook contains very explicit descriptions of sexual activity.

Simone, Te'Nae, and Shay are picture perfect wives and career women. Although they're able to juggle prestigious jobs, motherhood, and wifely duties with ease, they share a dark secret that, if exposed, could ruin everything they've worked hard to maintain. They will only get one chance to figure out if their families and marriages are worth more than the risks they're taking. They better hope they make the right decision, because once good wives go bad, there is no turning back, and the consequences can be major.

There are two things that my husband values more than anything else in this world. One is his...the other is his 1964 Ford Mustang.

Kate is a dress maker in the north of England who always did what was decided for her: serving those who come her way, marrying a man who is considered suitable, and living all her life "over the hills" she wants so desperately to cross. Until she decides her life are not enough for her. The novels she reads give her new ideas that change the course of her life forever. George Moore was an Irish realistic novelist. A Mummer's Wife was his second novel. At the time, the circulating libraries were those who published the mainstream novels. They were charged with publishing moral works. They ...

A good wife turned hotwife. A true story of my first sexual experience outside of marriage. Michelle and Jake are your average couple next door. Michelle is seeking something Jake can't provide. A woman lover. Her cravings are a perpetual reminder of what she isn't getting at home, until she meets Jennifer. When deceit and desire cross boundaries, Michelle realizes her needs and wants are not what she desired at all.

I hadn’t seen my friend in months and then she just showed up...married! She was always in the midst of a crazy adventure, and meeting a man in Europe and suddenly being married was just like her. I was used to her being kind of crazy but I didn’t expect to be dragged into it....That’s only one of the sexy tales you’ll find in this collection.

Ruth grew up conservatively. She married young. Now with her new husband, she's on a trip. The cute and nubile wife has awakened to lesbian delights. She wants to enjoy hot MILFs. And she's about to get her chance. Sitting by her on the plane is a busty MILF. Ruth is eager to make her move with her husband right beside her. The Christian wife is eager to give into to her lesbian desires!

James is shocked as he walks in on his faithful wife eagerly watching a video of her with her ex-boyfriend. But it's not just any video; Kate is stripped bare, knelt over, spanked relentlessly while begging for further punishment and at the mercy of her ex-boyfriend. Stunned that his wife harbors a kinky side and fueled with a passion to exert his dominance over her past...James concludes his wife deserves the ultimate lesson in domestic discipline.