The Loving Husband

Fran heard her husband, Nathan, come to bed that night, but when she woke up in the morning, he was nowhere to be found. Moving past her infant son and four-year-old daughter, Fran is compelled to look outside, where she finds Nathan's body in a ditch on their farmhouse property. She has no idea what happened and no concrete knowledge of the events that precipitated Nathan's death. Now alone and still living in Nathan's small hometown, Fran feels out of place and uncomfortable. She's learning unsettling things about her late husband and struggling with what she "thinks" she remembers about the night of his death. Shifting between the past and present, Kent's narrative flows well, although the section transitions could have been smoother. Still, that won't deter readers' interest in discovering the truth about Fran and Nathan.