Overview

When Camille Deming isn't cooking, cleaning, or homesteading in her picture-perfect country farmhouse, she's posting about her tradwife lifestyle for her online followers. She takes inspiration from other tradwives on social media, aspiring to be like them, but Camille's missing a key component: a baby. And contrary to what she posts online, things with her husband Graham have been strained. Pressured by her eager followers, Camille fears that without a baby, her relationship will suffer and her social media will never grow out of its infancy. When Camille discovers a mysterious, decrepit well in the wheatfield behind her house, she makes a wish for a baby. Afterwards, she has unsettling experiences that she convinces herself are angelic in nature, and when she's visited one night by a strange creature, her wish comes true. Camille's pregnancy announcement gets more engagement than anything she's ever posted - so what if Graham's reaction is lukewarm? Camille's life is finally falling into place. Never mind that her pregnancy is developing freakishly rapidly and she's suddenly craving raw meat. Being a traditional wife is worth it. Rosemary's Baby for the digital age, this disturbing horror novel is one you'll want to devour in just one bite.

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Praise for Trad Wife: “Saratoga Schaefer’s Trad Wife is one of those novels that truly sticks with you. It blends real horrors with the supernatural in a way that’s timely and deeply unsettling. Schaefer delivers a brutal, bloody story that gets under your skin and stays there. My only hope? That a #TradWife stumbles on this book thinking it’s something completely different and ends up along for the ride.” —Capes & Tights “Forget flipping through Baby 411, readers are going to need Baby 911 after meeting the newborn at the sweet, succulent heart of Saratoga Schaefer's surprisingly tender -- and stunningly stomach-turning -- new novel Trad Wife. A Rosemary's Baby for our modern social media mindset, no IG filter can rinse the blood-soaked body horror off your subconscious once you're done devouring this beaut of a book.” —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes “Saratoga Schaefer's Trad Wife is a gory thrill ride! Imagine Rosemary's Baby, but she's doing it for the 'gram.” —Chelsea Conradt, USA Today Bestselling Author of The Farmhouse “In the tradition of Bret Easton Ellis, Trad Wife takes the domestic dream and rips it wide open, serving up a blood-soaked satire as smart and tender as it is stomach-churning. Deliciously gruesome and surprisingly tender, it’s a razor-edged meditation on losing one’s self; a gory shrine to the things wives and mothers sacrifice on the altar of ‘Womanhood of Old’, and an ode to the raw, untamed authenticity that rises when the monster beneath the apron finally steps free.” —Dawn Kurtagich, Amazon bestselling author of The Thorns and The Madness “A breathless commentary that layers psychological terror and the lies we tell ourselves with the rot that is social media, Trad Wife is a masterpiece that cements Schaefer as the new authority when it comes to horror.” —Maria Tureaud, author of This House Will Feed “Sinking your teeth into Saratoga Schaefer's Trad Wife will satisfy every craving you have for raw, visceral horror hidden behind a picture-perfect facade. Timely, terrifying, and touched with humor, this book will chew you up and spit you out and you'll love every second of it.” —C.J. Dotson, author of The Cut

Praise for Trad Wife: “A breathless commentary that layers psychological terror and the lies we tell ourselves with the rot that is social media, Trad Wife is a masterpiece that cements Schaefer as the new authority when it comes to horror.” —Maria Tureaud, author of This House Will Feed “Sinking your teeth into Saratoga Schaefer's Trad Wife will satisfy every craving you have for raw, visceral horror hidden behind a picture-perfect facade. Timely, terrifying, and touched with humor, this book will chew you up and spit you out and you'll love every second of it.” —C.J. Dotson, author of The Cut

Praise for Trad Wife: “A breathless commentary that layers psychological terror and the lies we tell ourselves with the rot that is social media, Trad Wife is a masterpiece that cements Schaefer as the new authority when it comes to horror.” —Maria Tureaud, author of This House Will Feed

Praise for Trad Wife: “Saratoga Schaefer’s Trad Wife is one of those novels that truly sticks with you. It blends real horrors with the supernatural in a way that’s timely and deeply unsettling. Schaefer delivers a brutal, bloody story that gets under your skin and stays there. My only hope? That a #TradWife stumbles on this book thinking it’s something completely different and ends up along for the ride.” —Capes & Tights “Forget flipping through Baby 411, readers are going to need Baby 911 after meeting the newborn at the sweet, succulent heart of Saratoga Schaefer's surprisingly tender -- and stunningly stomach-turning -- new novel Trad Wife. A Rosemary's Baby for our modern social media mindset, no IG filter can rinse the blood-soaked body horror off your subconscious once you're done devouring this beaut of a book.” —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes “Saratoga Schaefer's Trad Wife is a gory thrill ride! Imagine Rosemary's Baby, but she's doing it for the 'gram.” —Chelsea Conradt, USA Today Bestselling Author of The Farmhouse “In the tradition of Bret Easton Ellis, Trad Wife takes the domestic dream and rips it wide open, serving up a blood-soaked satire as smart and tender as it is stomach-churning. Deliciously gruesome and surprisingly tender, it’s a razor-edged meditation on losing one’s self; a gory shrine to the things wives and mothers sacrifice on the altar of ‘Womanhood of Old’, and an ode to the raw, untamed authenticity that rises when the monster beneath the apron finally steps free.” —Dawn Kurtagich, Amazon bestselling author of The Thorns and The Madness “A breathless commentary that layers psychological terror and the lies we tell ourselves with the rot that is social media, Trad Wife is a masterpiece that cements Schaefer as the new authority when it comes to horror.” —Maria Tureaud, author of This House Will Feed “Smart, stylish, and savage, Trad Wife is an insidious drop down a well you’ll never climb out of.” —Neena Viel, author of Listen to Your Sister “Sinking your teeth into Saratoga Schaefer's Trad Wife will satisfy every craving you have for raw, visceral horror hidden behind a picture-perfect facade. Timely, terrifying, and touched with humor, this book will chew you up and spit you out and you'll love every second of it.” —C.J. Dotson, author of The Cut

Author Information

Saratoga Schaefer (they/them) is the USA Today Bestselling author of Serial Killer Support Group, Trad Wife, The Last Time We Drowned, and A Thousand Monstrous Forms. Their cunningly dark debut Serial Killer Support Group was a “Best Pick of the Month” by Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Saratoga’s second novel Trad Wife was an instant USA Today Bestseller and Indie Press Bestseller, a Library Reads and Aardvark Book Club pick for February 2026, as well as a best horror of the month by Variety and Reactor. Trad Wife was also featured in Book Riot, The Seattle Times, Goodreads, and Publisher’s Weekly. Saratoga’s books have been in People Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Glamour. They have published poetry and essays in online publications, and their writing has appeared in Writer’s Digest, CrimeReads, and more. They have a certificate in editing from the Poynter Institute (in partnership with ACES) and has a background in marketing, PR, film, and wellness. Originally from Brooklyn, Saratoga now lives upstate with several needy animals and a haunted clown table.

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