Here is a scripturally based blueprint for the woman who wants to be the wife God intended her to be. Martha Peace takes Proverbs 31:10 as her starting point - an excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels - and works through a wife's role, her responsibilities, her heart and the particular sins that undermine a marriage, answering the questions Christian wives most often bring to a counselor.

Peace writes as a biblical counselor rather than a theorist, drawing on years of work with women, and she is specific where books on marriage are often vague. Study questions run throughout, and the chapters correspond to those in The Exemplary Husband so a husband and wife can work through the two volumes together. This revised edition is the standard one, and the book has long been a staple of women's studies and marriage counseling.