Synopsis · English
For thirteen years, Henrique Pedreira was the perfect husband to Carlos Mendonça, Attorney General of the Republic: discreet to precisely the right degree, flawless in photographs, reliable in any boardroom.
When a scandal brings Carlos down publicly, Henrique is the one who absorbs the damage privately: the house in Lago Sul, the children, his mother-in-law about to arrive, reporters circling, and a marriage that keeps functioning even after it's broken.
Unable to fall apart and unable to stay where he is, he accepts a return to practicing law in São Paulo. The new position at an elite firm restores his income, routine, and control. It also puts him face-to-face with Gabriel again—a former law school classmate, now a partner at the firm, a man married to the wrong life and dangerous precisely because he knows how to wait.
Between Brasília and São Paulo, family crises, power struggles, million-dollar cases, and an attraction that arrives too late to be innocent, Henrique tries to hold together the architecture of the life he built. But the body starts making demands before reason can, and staying comes at a higher price than leaving.
The Good Husband is a Brazilian MM novel about political scandal, marriage in crisis, late-blooming desire, and the true cost of keeping everything together when the world around you begins to crumble.
For readers of slow burn, reunion romance, lawyers, politics, and emotionally restrained protagonists.
