The Lies Between Us

She told one lie, ten years ago, to save her best friend's life. She never imagined the friend she saved would be the one to come back for the truth.

Kate Ellison has spent a decade building an ordinary life in a small lake town - a husband, a daughter, a flower shop, a past nobody asks about. Then a woman named Sophie Lane moves in across the street, and Kate can't shake the feeling that she's looking at a ghost.

She isn't wrong. But the ghost isn't who Kate thinks she is - and neither, it turns out, is Kate.

As old questions resurface and a retired detective starts circling, Kate is forced to reckon with the night that built her entire adult life on a foundation she never fully understood. Everyone in this story is protecting someone. Not everyone is protecting the right person.

But nothing that happened at that lake house ten years ago is what it seems - and by the time Kate finds out who really needs forgiving, the fire that started it all may already be catching for the second time.

A deeply unsettling story of secrets, misplaced loyalty, and the lies we tell ourselves to survive the ones we tell everyone else.

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