His Other Wife

This special edition of His Other Wife-the viral online short story series-turned-novel and short film-includes never-published-before notes about Umm Zakiyyah’s personal inspiration behind writing the original short story series. His Other Wife is a story about love and betrayal, faith and personal crisis, and withstanding deep emotional wounds. Jacob is a successful businessman and college professor, and his wife Deanna is a renowned marriage counselor and author. Together they are their Muslim community’s power couple. Aliyah is Deanna’s recently divorced best friend who has just accepted a position at the college where Jacob works-and who is the unwilling recipient of Deanna’s constant unsolicited relationship advice. Deanna insists that Aliyah needs to learn how to hold a marriage together and keep a man from ever thinking about marrying another woman. But their friendship takes a difficult turn when Aliyah receives a phone call from her uncle saying that Jacob is interested in marrying her as a second wife-without Deanna’s knowledge.