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The Forgotten Bride

A fast-paced 2025 psychological thriller with shocking twists – a dark domestic thriller about a missing woman, buried secrets, and a past that won’t stay dead!

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The Forgotten Bride

By: Philip Anthony Smith
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She was supposed to get married. Instead, she vanished.

On the morning of her wedding, Olivia Lakewell stood outside a picturesque California chapel, ready to say “I do.” She never made it inside.

Vanished without a trace, Olivia became the subject of local legend—a tragic love story with no ending. Her fiancé was shattered. Her daughter left without a mother. And after years of searching, the town finally let her memory fade.

Until now.

Ten years later, Olivia returns. But nothing is how she left it. Her home is gone. Her husband has moved on. And the people she loved have spent a decade learning to live without her.

But the past isn’t done with her yet.

The deeper she digs, the darker the truth becomes. Lies unravel, secrets surface, and someone out there will do anything—anything—to keep what really happened that day buried.

Olivia was taken once—she won’t let it happen again.

Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Gillian Flynn, Freida McFadden, Ruth Ware, and Alice Feeney, The Forgotten Bride is a fast-paced, twist-filled domestic thriller that will keep you up all night, questioning everything. Packed with psychological suspense, shocking betrayals, and a jaw-dropping ending, this is the book thriller fans can’t stop talking about.

🔪 One wedding. One disappearance. One chilling truth.

Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Psychological Thriller & Suspense
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Awesome book! Had me hooked from the beginning!!!can’t wait for the next one!!! I hope there’s more to come!!

Great thriller!!!

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I would have liked a live person performing it. The voice sounds alittle too artificial.

Twists and turns right to the end

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I started off really enjoying this story, but the longer it went on the less I enjoyed it until, at some point around five or six chapters before the end of it, I kept looking to see how much time was left, because I was really ready for it to be over. The premise of the story is a good one, and for most of the story I was intrigued, in spite of the weird narration, which used improper inflections and phraseology. This story was supposed to be taking place in California, but local police used terms that would only be used in Great Britain or somewhere else such as instead of calling it a helicopter, California cops called it a whirly.
The twist and turns began to be ridiculous near the end of the story, but Long before that, the main characters behavior and actions were tiresome. Kudos to the author for coming up with what could’ve been a great plot and storyline, and for putting it together in an intriguing way for most of the story, but maybe next time don’t try to squeeze too much into it at the end, or at least don’t try to drag it out so far.

Twists, turns, and weird narration

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