Eddie visits Bea regularly to replenish her supplies of food and water. Jane begins to hear a thumping coming from the third floor of the house.īea writes about her suspicions that Blanche and Eddie were having an affair. As she plans her wedding, Jane meets Tripp Ingraham, the husband of Blanche, who hints at Eddie’s involvement in the disappearance of his wife. Fearful, Jane pays John and attempts to manipulate Eddie into proposing. John Rivers begins to blackmail Jane, revealing that someone from Phoenix has called looking for her and asking about a woman named Helen Burns. Jane moves in with Eddie and befriends her neighbors in Thornfield Estates, learning about the complex relationship of Bea and Blanche.

Bea claims Eddie murdered her childhood friend Blanche. Meanwhile, Bea Rochester writes in her journal while confined in the panic room on the third floor of her home. Desperate for stability and an escape from her roommate, John Rivers, Jane is eager to solidify her relationship with Eddie. Jane soon learns about the mysterious circumstances of Bea and Blanche’s disappearance: The women never returned from a boat ride at the Rochesters’ lake house and are presumed dead. Jane and Eddie feel an instant connection. Jane is a 23-year-old woman from Phoenix who has escaped a traumatic past in search of a fresh start. Six months after the disappearance of Birmingham, Alabama residents Bea Rochester and Blanche Ingraham, Jane Bell meets Eddie Rochester as she walks dogs in Thornfield Estates-the missing women’s wealthy neighborhood.

The wife upstairs novel