The End of Her Honeymoon

Paris, 1913. A newlywed couple arrives in the city during the Exposition Universelle, but every hotel is full. Through sheer exhaustion, they secure rooms in a crumbling ancient mansion. That night, Nancy wakes to find herself alone - her husband Jack has vanished into the dark corridors. When she searches for him, the hotel staff deny any knowledge of him, insisting she arrived alone. Nancy faces a horrifying choice: accept their reality or fight for a truth no one will acknowledge. The novel builds dread through relentless isolation - Nancy trapped in a foreign city, her marriage erased, her sanity questioned. Lowndes crafted psychological suspense decades before the term "gaslighting" existed, exploring how easily truth dissolves when powerful institutions deny it. This remains profoundly unsettling: a wife's word against an institution's lie, and no way to prove which is real.