Summary:
A provocative new novel by bestselling author Randy Susan Meyers about the seemingly blind love of a wife for her husband as he conquers Wall Street, and her extraordinary, perhaps foolish, loyalty during his precipitous fall.
Phoebe recognizes fire in Jake Pierce’s belly from the moment they meet as teenagers. As he creates a financial dynasty, she trusts him without hesitation—unaware his hunger for success hides a dark talent for deception.
When Phoebe learns her husband’s triumph and vast reach rests on an elaborate Ponzi scheme her world unravels. As Jake’s crime is uncovered, the world obsesses about Phoebe. Did she know her life was fabricated by fraud? Was she his accomplice?
While Jake is trapped in the web of his deceit, Phoebe is caught in an unbearable choice. Her children refuse to see her if she remains at their father’s side, but abandoning him feels cruel and impossible.
From penthouse to prison, with tragic consequences rippling well beyond Wall Street, Randy Susan Meyers’s latest novel exposes a woman struggling to survive and then redefine her life as her world crumbles.
Review:
Oh boy oh boy. This novel was quite the intriguing, thought-provoking and intense read. We got to really know both Phoebe and Jake extremely well, be privy to their inner most thoughts, and watch them grow from children really to adults. This book was long and took me several days to finish even when I would have marathon sessions with it, and is probably my only critique of this story. There were a handful of scenes that maybe could have been cut or condensed so the story wasn’t to the length it was, but while it was something that bothered me, it was slight. It was quite interesting to get to know two characters so well and watch how they lived their lives, what made them tick, their mistakes, their triumphs. There is a lot of finance talk, investments, stocks, etc, that I don’t know a lot about myself, but never once during those scenes did I feel lost or bored. I feel like I have so much I could say in this book review because again, we got quite the story here that carries us through decades, but overall, I would say read this book. It was too interesting to put down my Kindle after just reading a chapter…or two. It had me telling my friends “well, listen to what I’m reading about!” and us discussing how we would handle certain situations. And even though I finished this story five days ago, I’m still thinking about Phoebe. About Jake. And about The Widow of Wall Street.
4.5 stars
