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In Strange Bedfellow, Dina discovers her husband Blade has resurfaced after a two‑year disappearance in the South American jungle, though she believes him dead. Now engaged to his best friend, her life is thrown into chaos. Set in Rhode Island, the novel explores themes of love, guilt, survival, and the search for missing persons, capturing the quandary of whether a torn marriage can be mended after such profound change.
First publish date: 1979
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Janet Dailey
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