num_pages: 256
description: Awakening alone in the Arizona desert with no knowledge of who she is or why she is there, a young woman senses that she is being pursued by some unknown danger. Only a slip of paper with the words "Captain Michael Devereaux, Luke Air Force Base" found in her clothing connects her with reality -- a reality that becomes terrifying when she meets the captain, who angrily tells her that she is his wife, Laurel, who deserted him and their newborn son two years before. Taken to the isolated Devereaux estate outside Phoenix, she gradually becomes convinced both that she may indeed be Michael's wife and that whatever horror she fled in the desert continues to threaten her life. The hostility of her newfound relatives, their refusal to believe her story of amnesia, and growing evidence of a very real and present jeopardy drive her in a desperate search for her past -- a past she fears will prove even more unbearable than the menace of the present.
language: English
title: Michael's Wife
titlecomplete: Michael's Wife
characters: Laurel Devereaux, Jimmy Devereaux, Michael Devereaux
genres: Fiction, Gothic, Mystery
ratings_count: 253
places: Phoenix, Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons