Some fairy tales are too good to be true.

He had been warned about women like her.

Beautiful enough to make a man forget his better judgment. Charming enough to make everyone wonder what she wanted. His friends called her a seductress. A gold digger. The kind of woman who knew exactly what she was doing when she chose a man like him.

He didn't listen.

He fell in love.

Then he married her.

And for a while, it seemed he had been right.

They built the kind of life other people envied: a beautiful home, three daughters, good friends, Sunday mornings and family photographs, a marriage that looked increasingly like proof that sometimes the fairy tale really does happen.

Until his wife began to change.

At first, it was easy to explain. Three children change a woman. Exhaustion changes her. Motherhood asks things of the mind and body no one understands until they're living through it.

But then came the moods. The accusations. The strange behavior. The things she swore had happened that no one else remembered quite the same way.

He tries to be patient.

Her best friend tries to help.

Everyone does.

Because he loves his wife.

Because their daughters need their mother.

Because no one wants to believe the warnings everyone gave him years ago might have been right.

But fairy tales have always had witches.

And sometimes the hardest thing about loving someone is realizing too late that everyone else saw what you refused to see.

That Witch You Should Fear is a psychological thriller about love, marriage, motherhood, and the terrifying distance between the person you married and the person they become.