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My Husband’s Secret Texts to My Older Sister: A Marriage in Crisis Romance

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286 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 23, 2026

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Profile Image for Debbie DiFiore.
2,980 reviews324 followers
May 6, 2026
Oh this was so good

I loved the book after the first couple of chapters. Her sister was totally evil. She was vile. Jake was simply amazing. He never stopped loving her and when he found her, he relentlessly went after her. Not aggressively but lovingly. He sent flowers, coffee, almond croissants, bought random people groceries(lol) and was just a great guy. I liked her too. There was a moment when after she found out the truth, that she was hesitating to reunite that made me quite grumpy. I was like come on man! He deserved it. He didn't cheat, he never had sex with anyone else and he loved her deeply. It touched my heart. By the end, I was so happy that they found their hea in spite of her sister's machinations, I actually sighed! It was just like that. It was like the perfect kiss.
389 reviews5 followers
April 28, 2026
Slight improvement

First, I loved that there were no rebound relationship. It helped with the connection between these two. Which is why the two stars.
There were still silly mistakes this author keeps making in her books. I will stand on my suspension that her books are AI generated. She cranks out books too fast to not second guess this and the mistakes are just dumb to have missed.
The author needs to be careful when she uses the guy gets drugged plot. This isn't her first book with this in it. That's why a lot of her books are just repeats with name changes. The guy was innocent and the author made him seem to have to make atonement to HER. The author tried to have her be guilty for not believing him but not enough for me. It made me not like Emma with, even after she found out the truth, and the author had her still miss him. She still didn't know she wanted to be with him. Seriously? The story should have generated that once she found out she ran to him immediately. It was better than previously published books by this author. I am looking for the cookie cutter piece to disappear and the dumb mistakes...example...sister gets out of bed and puts his shirt on, few sentences later she's still in bed undressed. Don't want her in the shirt... delete, delete, delete. Simple. If this is AI, and I'm not saying, you still have to edit. I know. I have written a book and every word is MINE. And that feels great!
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4,379 reviews377 followers
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May 25, 2026
Triggers: drugging; perceived infidelity/staged cheating; sibling betrayal; family estrangement; wedding destroyed; alcohol/sobriety; bullying of a minor; physical violence; best friend's long-running deception; parental pressure/conditional approval; infidelity (by the villain); self-isolation; stalking-adjacent behavior (framed as romantic)
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Profile Image for Amy Long.
159 reviews7 followers
June 14, 2026
⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3 Stars)

This book was interesting enough to keep me reading, but by the end I felt like everyone involved needed therapy, a detective, and possibly a time machine.

The setup hooked me immediately.

Emma and Jake have been together forever. Childhood sweethearts. First loves. The kind of couple everyone assumes will make it because they’ve already survived all the hard parts of growing up together.

Two weeks before their wedding, Emma sees a text from her sister Chloe on Jake’s phone:
“Don’t tell Emma about us❤️”
Along with a lingerie photo.

Not exactly confidence-inspiring.

Emma already knows Chloe is manipulative, selfish, and enjoys causing destruction wherever she goes, but she decides to trust Jake and move forward with the wedding.

Then the rehearsal dinner happens.
Jake disappears upstairs.
Chloe disappears shortly afterward.
Emma follows them and finds Jake unconscious in the bridal suite.

And this is where the book lost me the first time.

Because when Emma first walks into that room, she does NOT believe Chloe.
At all.

Jake is passed out cold.
Completely unresponsive.
Chloe is naked in his bed.
And Emma immediately starts arguing with Chloe because she doesn’t believe a word coming out of her mouth.

Chloe spends several minutes saying the most vile, cruel, detailed things imaginable about her supposed affair with Jake. She twists the knife every chance she gets.

And Emma fights back because her first instinct is:
“No. Jake would never do this.”
Which made complete sense.
This is a man she’s known since she was seven years old.
A man she’s loved for years.
A man who has never given her any reason to believe he’s capable of this.
Meanwhile Chloe is a proven liar and manipulator.

Then Jake wakes up.
And somehow that’s the exact moment Emma starts believing Chloe.
Jake is horrified.
Confused.
Disoriented.
He has absolutely no idea what’s happening.

He looks less like a man who got caught cheating and more like a man who woke up in the middle of someone else’s crime scene.

But suddenly the known liar becomes the trustworthy witness.
And the trustworthy guy becomes the liar.
That’s where the story fell apart for me.

Nobody asks questions.
Nobody investigates.
Nobody considers that maybe the unconscious man doesn’t know why he’s unconscious.
Nobody takes Jake to a hospital.
Nobody orders a toxicology test.
Nobody does literally anything that would make sense.

Instead, everyone decides Chloe is telling the truth.

Jake’s parents.
Their friends.
Almost everyone in his life.
They all abandon him.

And then we get a three-year time jump.

Emma has left town.
Jake lost basically everyone except his brother Jaden.
His parents never fully forgave him.
His friends distanced themselves.
He quit drinking because he’s genuinely not sure what happened that night.
And honestly?
At this point I felt worse for Jake than almost anyone else.

Three years later but he finally finds Emma in Portland, (MAINE not Oregon) where she has built a new life as a vice principal.

From there the book becomes a second-chance romance.

Jake starts showing up.
Sending her favorite flowers.
Sending her favorite croissants.
Helping her school.
Buying her groceries.
Stalking her but also…
Trying to prove he’s still the man she loved.
And honestly, I liked this section more than the beginning.

The problem is that when the truth finally starts coming out, Emma somehow finds a new reason to stay angry.

We learn that Chloe manipulated the entire situation.
We learn Jake wasn’t the villain Emma believed he was.
We learn he spent three years paying for a mistake he didn’t actually make.

And Emma’s response is basically:
“Well, you should have listened when I warned you about Chloe.”

Which… true.

But also… victim blaming much?

And Ma’am.
The man just lost three years of his life because everyone believed the wrong person. Maybe let’s ease up a little.

At some point it stopped feeling like accountability and started feeling like punishment for the sake of punishment.

The frustrating thing is that the bones of a really good story are here.

I enjoyed the premise.
I liked the setup.
I loved the emotional potential.

But so much of the conflict depends on intelligent people making baffling decisions.

The entire story could have been dramatically shorter if someone had simply taken Jake to a hospital the night of the rehearsal dinner.

One toxicology report could have saved everyone approximately three years of misery.

Instead, we spend hundreds of pages watching people trust the least trustworthy character in the book while doubting the one person who actually deserved the benefit of the doubt.

By the end everything gets resolved.
The romance gets its ending.
The villains get what they deserve.
And I was happy enough to finish it.

But I spent most of the book wanting to grab every character by the shoulders and yell:
“FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, TAKE THIS MAN TO THE HOSPITAL.”

So overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Interesting enough to finish.

Frustrating enough to make me question everyone’s decision-making abilities.

And proof that sometimes the real villain isn’t Chloe.

It’s the complete absence of a toxicology test.
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681 reviews31 followers
June 3, 2026
Marginally better.

**SPOILERS**

Emma is marrying her long time boyfriend, Jake. Then, right before the wedding she gets texts messages, all from her sister to Jake, explicit texts. Then she walks in on Jake, his belt unbuckled, her sister naked next to him. Her sister tells her Jake is great in bed, and that he was tired of her, and stressed about a wedding he no longer wanted. Emma reads the texts out loud at the wedding, and throws her ring at him. She leaves for Maine, and erases herself. Jake is beside himself. He doesn’t remember anything. He has no idea how he ended up next to Emma’s naked sister.

Three years later a project brings Jake back into Emma’s life. Emma freaks out! Jake won’t leave her alone. He fixes things around her apartment, donates to her school, and basically moves into Emma’s neighborhood. During this time Emma finds out her sister is engaged to a rich man and living in the Hampton. She’s furious! Her sister gets to move on after imploding her life! Ryan, Jake’s best friend comes to Emma and admits that he saw her sister DRUG Jake, and move him to the hotel room. He let this happen because he was in love with Emma. Nothing happened. Her sister didn’t sleep with Jake. Emma kicks Ryan out. Ryan goes to Jake and tells him the same story, Jake kicks him out. Jake and Emma reunite. They dig up all of her sister’s dirty deeds and send them to her fiancé. Her sister calls frantic. Her fiancé froze her cards, kicked her out of the Hampton’s house and wants nothing to do with her. Emma says, that’s Karma! The sister shows up to confront Emma, playing victim again. When Emma doesn’t budge she snaps “I’m not sorry for what I did, I’m just sorry I got caught!” (Classic narcissist psycho response!). Emma tells her to get lost, and that she’s pressing charges against her for drugging her fiancé three years ago. Jake and Emma reunite, he proposes, and they get married.

**THOUGHTS/OPINIONS**

This book is marginally better than the last offering from the author I read. At least there was no actual cheating! I really would’ve liked to see the sister’s finance kick her out and dismantle her life! I also would’ve liked to see the sister behind bars after Emma pressed charges! Yeah, I have no mercy for cheating, lying, b*tch sisters who destroy their sister’s lives just because they’re supposedly jealous! What a ridiculous excuse for being a total lunatic!!! If the sister had been destroyed completely, I would’ve given this book more stars! Evil doers deserve NOTHING! They should get the harshest punishment possible!!!
Profile Image for Kiley.
2,114 reviews62 followers
May 14, 2026
My Husband's Secret Texts to My Older Sister, part of the Her Marriage in Crisis series, was about 25-year-old Emma King, a vice principal at a local middle school, and 25-year-old Jake Walsh, a land surveyor with the Walsh Development Company.

Emma and Jake had been friends since the age of 7, and they admitted their love for one another at 16. At 19, he proposed, and when they were 22, they were set to be married. But two weeks before their wedding, Emma found a picture on Jake's phone of her older sister, Chloe, in a black negligee, with the message, "Don't tell Emma about us. <3." Then the night before the wedding, she found Chloe naked in their bed...and Jake passed out, his shirt off, belt undone...and claw marks on his chest and back. She broke things off and left.

Three years later, Jake found Emma. His father's company had work in the area, and had sent Jake to take care of it. He bumped into her while getting coffee at a local cafe. Once he realized she lived there, he rented an apartment and started wooing her. When the truths of the past came out, it was life-changing.

There was a lot to unpack in this book, and not all of it was good. The author had a lot of great ideas in this story, but she didn't use them to the best of their abilities. One idea would start, but then the author threw something else into the mix before it was finished, making the story go down a different path. But before the second thought could reach a conclusion, something else was inserted, making the second one as obsolete as the first. It became quite irritating and confusing.

It was a rough read at times, mainly because of the various twists employed to attempt a decent story. Even the book's title was wrong because they hadn't been married at the time of the incident.

I gave this a two-star rating, but that was being generous.
Profile Image for Jillaine Bohne.
5 reviews1 follower
May 11, 2026
not bad

Story was fine, but the timeline was a little messy. Couple was together for 8 years, since they were 16 which would make them 24 at the time of the betrayal. 3 years later and the heroine is only 25. Other than that, it was good. I would have liked to see more fallout for the villain though.
Profile Image for Linda.
1,313 reviews29 followers
May 8, 2026
Wow, with a sister like that, you definitely do not need enemies. Jake was amazing and totally made my heart weep. The pain and humiliation he suffered was horrific. Where were the people (his family especially) who should have known his character. Where was anyone with any medical experience who could have guessed in seconds that he was drugged?

Glad they got the HEA and that the sister got the karma she deserved.
Profile Image for Traci.
539 reviews20 followers
May 24, 2026
Notes for me

Jake

Emma

Been in love since childhood

Rehearsal dinner Emma finds Jake and her sister Chloe in bed together in the bridal suite. Jake is passed out, no shirt, belt undone, lipstick on his neck and scratches on his chest and back.

Chole is nude. She says it’s been going on for a few months. She is absolutely enjoying Emma’s devastation. Emma wants to believe it’s a set up, however 2 weeks before she found a text on Jake’s phone saying don’t tell Emma about us and a picture of her in underwear.

Jake wakes up and freaks out. Swears he never did anything; however in all honesty he doesn’t remember that hour. He didn’t tell Emma about the text or picture to protect her. He made it very clear to Chloe it wasn’t appropriate and don’t do it again.

Emma runs. Three years later and she’s living across the country working as a Middle School principal. Jake happens to be on a job site in the same city and runs in to her at a coffee shop. He works to get her back, but Emma is not having it.

She gets a save the date card from Chloe marrying a trust fund baby.

They both still love each other and haven’t moved on, but how do you come back from that.

Out of nowhere one of Jake’s best friends, Ryan, is waiting on her porch. He finally admits he saw Chloe drug Jake. She then tells him Emma has an emergency upstairs. His reasoning for not stopping her, because he wanted Emma for himself. Emma wastes no words telling him how horrible this was. He watched Jake’s family cut him off, sat across from Jake at dinner once a week seeing him destroy himself. All because he convinced himself it wasn’t his problem.
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70 reviews
May 24, 2026
hmm

Although this was well written. The mfc got on my nerves. She knew her sister was awful but believed that she’d slept with her fiancé even when said fiancé was unconscious in the bed not asleep unconscious. Even when he tried to explain that the sister had lured him there and he’d passed out . He couldn’t remember anything and nobody not one person thought maybe he’d been drugged. The mfc character then disappeared for 3 years while the mmc took all the blame and the sister faced no consequences. I skimmed to the last 4 chapters. It honestly got on my nerves.
225 reviews
June 19, 2026
It was so obvious he had been drugged but nobody think about it, not even the therapist.
Ryan came clean 5 years after! Isn’t it too late? Why now? If he lives with his omission 5 years, why did he crack. It should have been days or months later, not year.
His whole family and friend went against him. No support. It’s harsh. And there is no comeuppance for them.
The sister gets what she deserves but still too nicely.
And to have more plot rebound, the author find an excuse for them to not get back together immediately…
26 reviews
May 17, 2026
love

I hate that it took 3 yrs for the truth to come out. But this was a cute story.
One thing though…. Every story in the series is almost the same. I am reading out of order which doesn’t matter they are all a stand alone.
Even though I gave it a four it’s more of a 3.8.
But a cute read. And worth it.
8 reviews
May 17, 2026
I loved it!!!

I’m sad I could not have another chapter or bonus chapter! For sure they’re now my favorites! Jake suffered so much and he never place any guilt against Emma! He loved her completely!
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2,526 reviews34 followers
May 24, 2026
Emma and Jake

Those two went through the ringer. The sister's betrayal was horrendous and both Emma and Jake spent years separated because of it. Jake was amazing. Despite what was done to him he fought to be with Emma, the love of his life. Highly recommended
74 reviews
April 25, 2026
Makes you feel the pain

Betrayal. Painful. Few discrepancies, very few. But good book. I loved the timeline of the couple. And his dedication to her.
766 reviews5 followers
May 6, 2026
No one in this book is a mature adult. If someone came up to me and said "it appears I've had sex, but I don't remember any of it," my first thought would be rape. I don't care if it's a man.
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238 reviews2 followers
May 22, 2026
An engagement in crisis

Overall a good book. There were a few minor mistakes and the side characters in particular occasionally spoke in motivational quotes but otherwise not bad
Profile Image for Diana Magno.
47 reviews
May 24, 2026
just one question…

This book had me feeling all the feels but I have one question for the author…Why did Jake save the photo to his phone?
Profile Image for Renee Byers.
3 reviews
May 25, 2026
great book

I would have loved to hear more about what happened to Chloe in the end… and how her parents handled her.
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