Happily Ever After

Emily has planned her lavish castle-wedding meticulously and now it is just days away. There are only three details that can’t be controlled: the weather, her mother Annika and her older brother Erik. The weather turns out fantastic, but during the extravagant wedding party, tensions increase among the guests. And when a horrifying discovery is made in the dark castle garden, everything rapidly begins to unravel…

Happily Ever After revolves around two families in a suburban neighborhood whose idyllic middle-class existence, centered around the sons’ football practice and family gatherings, is torn apart by a car-accident involving their teenage boys. The tight-knit friend group disintegrates as loyalties shift, lies are uncovered, and a sinister secret spreads its poison.

Eight years later, the group is reunited at the wedding where it becomes clear that all the time spent trying to forget was in vain and wounds from the past reveal themselves as fresh as ever.

In her distinguished true-to-life narrative style, Malin Stehn weaves a plot that, over two parallel timelines, and four different narrators, reveals how rash decisions in the past continue to yield dire consequences in the present – and how the life we once took for granted can change in the blink of an eye.