The Frightened Wife — Mary Roberts Rinehart

AND FEAR WAS EVERYWHERE…

Under the name Anne Coullier, the beautiful young woman was chained to a violent brute of a husband as she struggled to protect the happiness of her child.

As Jessica Blake, this same woman moved in a world of glitter and glamour, successful admired, and bitterly envied.
Living two lives, she could find peace in neither … and nowhere was there refuge when she realized someone was out to murder her…