The Better Wife

Ninety minutes of frozen grid road separate the Gunnarson farm from the nearest town, and that distance is about to become a cage. A federal letter conscripts Erik into a classified program called the Lumen Initiative, and with it comes a promise he never asked for: a "domestic companion" to care for his wife, Sonja, while he is gone. But Erik hasn't left yet. And the woman sleeping beside him has stopped biting her nails, stopped curling on her side, and started saying his name like she's memorizing it.