alarm goes off, on instinct, like the neurotic, sleep-deprived New Yorker I’ve become. With the psychological insight and biting wit of Luckiest Girl Alive, and the yearning ambitions and desires of Sweetbitter, this keenly intelligent and supremely resonant novel chronicles the exhilaration and dilemmas of young adulthood and the difficulty of letting go-even when you know you should. “Readers will be enraptured” ( Booklist) by the “unforgettable beauties in this very sexy story” ( Kirkus Review). And their addicting entanglement will have consequences they never could have imagined.Īlternating between Lucy’s and Stephen’s voices, Tell Me Lies follows their connection through college and post-college life in New York City. Stephen knows Lucy can’t tear herself away. Lucy knows there’s something about Stephen that isn’t to be trusted. Meanwhile, Stephen is determined to forget an incident buried in his past that, if exposed, could ruin him, and his single-minded drive for success extends to winning, and keeping, Lucy’s heart. Devastating.Ĭonfident and cocksure, Stephen sees something in Lucy that no one else has, and she’s quickly seduced by this vision of herself, and the sense of possibility that his attention brings her. Quickly grasping at her fresh start, Lucy embraces college life and all it has to offer. Lucy Albright is far from her Long Island upbringing when she arrives on the campus of her small California college and happy to be hundreds of miles from her mother-whom she’s never forgiven for an act of betrayal in her early teen years. “A twisted modern love story” ( Parade), Tell Me Lies is a sexy, thrilling novel about that one person who still haunts you-the other one.

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