THE WIFE APP

Award-winning YA novelist Carolyn Mackler, enters the world of adult women's fiction with this debut novel The Wife App. This 21st Century First Wives Club centers on three friends who, unlucky in marriage, bond together to monetize their wifely duties after one of their husbands shacks up with the former nanny.

Three best friends -- Lauren, the mother of twins, Madeline with the perfect daughter and everything money can buy, and Sophie with never enough money -- decide they're finally done with their ex-husbands taking them for granted. They are ready to monetize the mental load, stick it to their exes, and have a wild ride in the process. Think: vacation planning, childcare, appointment-making, being a suitable date to work functions, and so on. As the app becomes the fastest growing startup in New York City, the three women find their lives transformed in ways they cannot imagine. In the end, The Wife App is about love, ambition, and female empowerment.

It starts as a joke - let's build an app to charge for our wifely services. But once Lauren builds it, the Wife App takes off. Soon it's the fastest growing startup in New York City. But then life intervenes. Love intervenes. Ex-husbands intervene. And the consequences are bigger than anything Lauren, Madeline, or Sophie could have expected. But it's worth it because every wife, real or hired, deserves her very own happy ending.

Carolyn Mackler, a prize-winning bestselling author of young-adult novels, now writes her debut adult novel about friendship, love, revenge and getting what you deserve.