Provider

Naomi Ellison-Drake has spent thirty years finding the places where stories do not agree with themselves.As a freelance copy editor, she notices the wrong date, the impossible timeline, the detail that quietly gives a lie away. In her own marriage, she has trusted the ordinary rhythm of things: Russell leaving for work each morning, coming home each evening, managing the household numbers as he always has.Then one small inconsistency appears. Then another. A renewal notice. A garage record. A careless remark from an old colleague.Naomi does not want to turn her marriage into a case. She does not want to accuse the man she still loves. But as the evidence gathers, she is forced to face the truth Russell has been unable to say aloud: the life they have been living may be built on a hidden loss.Quiet, precise, and emotionally tense, The Provider is a domestic suspense novel about marriage, money, shame, and the fragile work of telling the truth before silence becomes the larger damage.