For eleven days, Vera has been quietly helping her husband die.
Joel Vanhuys is rich, controlling, and just sick enough for a slower death to look natural. Vera has been careful. Precise. Invisible. Then Friday night, she comes home to find the house blazing with light, the table set like a tribunal, her lover bleeding in a chair, and Joel waiting with proof of the affair.
He knows.
But Joel is not interested in divorce. Not yet.
A multimillion-dollar house sale is set to close Monday morning, and the money is already spoken for. If the weekend explodes, the deal dies. If the deal dies, private damage turns public. So Joel locks the house down, takes their phones, and forces Vera and Nico to stay under his roof until the papers are signed.
Then Joel’s body starts failing faster than Vera planned.
Now the husband she meant to kill is the one man she cannot let die.
Through one brutal weekend, Vera must keep Joel alive long enough to smile through dinner with the buyers, survive the closing, and stop the whole rotten structure—money, secrets, blackmail, and all—from collapsing before Monday is over. Because once the signatures are on paper, everyone in the house can stop pretending.
And if Vera fails, she will not just lose her marriage.
She will lose the money, the future, and control of the story she thought she was writing.
The Final Dose is a psychological suspense novel about marriage, poison, money, and the kind of private ruin that only looks elegant from across the room.
