The Newlywed

Zia Rayyan

Thriller • 288 Pages • • Series: Newlywed #1 • Audio Book: 7 hrs and 19 mins • Narrator: Cat Protano & Xander Stone

She married a stranger. Now someone wants her dead.
After a brutal breakup leaves her emotionally shattered, librarian Morgan Sloane joins Eden—a secretive matchmaking program promising marriage at first sight. Her new husband Henry Langford is utterly perfect: wealthy, charming, and waiting at the altar of a private island paradise.
Then she meets a woman who won't stop staring at Henry. Every time Morgan turns around, she's there, watching and smiling like she knows something Morgan doesn't. When Morgan confronts Henry about her, he becomes evasive. He's hiding something.
If Morgan wants to survive her honeymoon, she needs to find out what he's hiding before she learns why this perfect man was still unmarried.

Morgan - Librarian, Henry’s new wife
Dexter - Eden representative
Henry - Morgan’s new husband
Brody - Genevieve’s husband
Genevieve - A woman from Henry’s past
Luka - Bartender at Eden

Morgan meets with Dexter so he can find her a perfect match.
A week later Morgan is whisked off to the private island resort, Eden, to meet her husband at the altar.
Morgan marries Henry that same day and they have an instant connection.
Morgan and Henry meet another newlywed couple on the island, Brody and Genevieve.
Henry reveals he and Genevieve knew each other growing up.
Morgan asks for more information but Henry says there is nothing to tell.
Genevieve tells Morgan that Henry is her husband.
Morgan confronts Henry who says that Genevieve has been convinced she is married to Henry since they first met as children.
Morgan becomes friendly with one of the bartenders, Luka, and convinces him to give her the suite number and access code for Genevieve’s room.
Morgan sneaks into Genevieve’s room and discovers Brody dead in the bathtub.
Morgan is told Luka was fired and she goes looking for him in the staff area of the island.
Morgan finds Luka being held against his will and he tells her the answers she seeks are in the therapist's files.
Morgan sees Dexter inject Luka with a substance meant to mimic a heart attack.
Morgan discovers the truth in the therapist’s files: Eden’s true purpose is to reignite passion between couples by introducing a temporary stand-in (Morgan). Henry and Genevieve are actually married, and the goal of the program is for them to find their way back to each other. The file also reveals that, once the process is complete, Morgan is to be eliminated.
Morgan leaves a note in Genevieve’s room forged in Henry’s handwriting saying that he fell in love with Morgan and no longer wants to reunite with her.
Morgan and Henry meet by the cliffside for a vow renewal - the last step before they can leave the island.
Genevieve shows up at the vow renewal and instead of taking her place at the altar as Henry expects, she shoots the officiant and then Henry.
A struggle ensues; Morgan gets shot in the leg and then she ends up shooting Genevieve in the head.
Morgan takes Dexter hostage and heads for the private jet to escape the island.
Once in the air Morgan tells the pilot to fly to Portugal and then shoots Dexter.
When Henry wakes up in the hospital and finds out Morgan is still alive he decides he is going to find her because he really did fall in love with her.

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