About This Circle
Hot Gloss Press™ was built for the fiction that sits at the intersection of luxury aesthetics and deep feminist unease, and the Glass House Circle™ is the reader community that gravity creates. Adrianne St. Brielle writes about women who have everything and know exactly what that cost. Wife, Witness, or Blueprint for Betrayal? begins with a woman who already knows something is wrong, and the novel's architecture is built around what becomes possible when she stops performing the marriage she was given. These are not stories about dramatic revelations. They are stories about the long, expensive, internal work of telling the truth in rooms where the truth was never invited.
Who This Circle Is For
This circle is for the reader who has sat at tables that looked right and felt wrong. It is for the woman who has never quite believed the surface, and for the reader who recognizes, in fiction, the specific quality of life that is performed correctly but lived under pressure.
Focus Themes
The Collection
Discussion Prompts™
In Wife, Witness, or Blueprint for Betrayal?, the protagonist's silence is not passive. How does the book reframe what it means for a woman to choose to remain quiet inside a marriage?
From: Wife, Witness… or Blueprint for Betrayal? by Adrianne St. Brielle
The title gives the reader three possible roles for the same woman. Which role did you find most difficult to hold, and where in the novel did the difficulty feel most honest?
From: Wife, Witness… or Blueprint for Betrayal? by Adrianne St. Brielle
Adrianne St. Brielle is interested in what it costs a woman to sustain the appearance of a perfect life. What does the book suggest happens to that cost when the woman finally stops paying it?
From: Wife, Witness… or Blueprint for Betrayal? by Adrianne St. Brielle
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