Kaira Rouda

Bio

Kaira Rouda is the USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author of contemporary fiction exploring what goes on beneath the surface of seemingly perfect lives. Her suspense novels include Best Day Ever, The Next Wife, The Widow, The Favorite Daughter, The Second Mrs. Strom, and What the Nanny Saw. JILL IS NOT HAPPY is out June 2025. Her novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and have been selected by Library Reads, Amazon and Apple Books Editors as Best Books of the Month and Strand Magazine’s Best Book of the Year. Her novel Beneath the Surface has been optioned for a feature film and was a Zibby’s Book Award winner. The Next Wife was awarded a Suspense Magazine Best Book of 2021 and won the Silver Falchion for Best Suspense Novel of the Year. She lives in Southern California with her family.