The Lies I Tell

Julie Clark 

Domestic Thriller

Two women. Many aliases.

Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She’s a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be—a college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real. She slides alongside you and tells you exactly what you need to hear, and by the time she’s done, you’ve likely lost everything.

Kat Roberts has been waiting ten years for the woman who upended her life to return. And now that she has, Kat is determined to be the one to expose her. But as the two women grow closer, Kat’s long-held assumptions begin to crumble, leaving Kat to wonder who Meg’s true target is.

The Lies I Tell is a twisted domestic thriller that dives deep into the psyches and motivations of two women and their unwavering quest to seek justice for the past and rewrite the future.

-Excerpt taken from Goodreads.

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My Opinion

“This is the mark of a true con artist, when the people she leaves behind can know what she’s done and still want the best for her.”

(4.5 / 5) Loved it! Meg is a force to reckoned with. She is a con artist who has conned many men out of their money. Kat was inadvertently affected by one of Meg’s cons and she’s determined to make her pay.

“…holding your enemy close makes it much easier to slip the knife into their back.”

I love when a “villain” is made out to be more human. It shows us there is always another side to people that we usually have no idea of. Meg was very much this. She had reasons behind her cons, and a backstory to prove it. It was so fun putting each piece together for her story.

“I believed in making your own opportunities. I believed in taking what you wanted from life, and if you had to hurt someone in the process, it had better be for a good reason, because I also believed in karma.”

It was such a great ending. It really was perfect. It was planned out detail by detail and ended in the perfect explosion. Fabulous! What a fun read!

General content summary: F words: 13, minimal language, drinking alcohol, previous parental cancer death, poverty, story of previous teacher and student relationship (details of what they supposedly did together), m/m relationship, date rape (and acceptance of it) mentioned, kisses, unwed pregnancy, abortion, drugged rape (no details), anxiety/panic attacks, sexual harassment, fraud, betrayal.

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