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Jen Waite


Jen Waite grew up on the coast of Maine. After graduating from Vassar College she moved to New York City for ten years, where she first worked in finance and then pursued acting and modeling. She moved back to Maine in 2015 shortly after the birth of her daughter, Vivienne. She is the author of the international bestseller, A Beautiful, Terrible Thing which details the discovery that her ex-husband was leading a double life. Survival Instincts is her debut novel. She lives in Southern Maine with her six-year-old daughter and is currently at work on her third book.

Books by Jen Waite

A Beautiful, Terrible Thing

"In this emotionally charged memoir, Waite describes how the man she married turned out to be not at all what he seemed. A well-written and at times gripping story of deceit."--Publishers Weekly

What do you do when you discover that the person you've built your life around never existed? When "it could never happen to me" does happen to you?

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