“Of course not, Doctor,” she said, using his title on purpose, teasing, proving her admiration. Yes, you scare me, Nora wanted to tell him.

“Did I scare you?” He came toward her, leaned to her, his breath puffing in the early evening chill. But had she already failed? Douglas might notice her artifice. “Douglas,” she said, softening her face into Nora’s face, relaxing her smile into Nora’s welcoming smile, opening her arms like Nora did. She whirled as the voice came from behind her. But it was just a mom, or nanny, extricating a baby from a car seat in the back. Nora eased, slowly, into the lee of the streetlight, keeping to the shadows. The interior lights came on in a maybe-Volvo parked half a block down the street.

A seemingly oblivious passerby pinged her inner alarm, but the guy with the backpack was too focused on his phone to be a threat-someone following her, or watching her. She checked for surveillance cameras: none. Not crossing a line.īehind her, a horn beeped. She closed her eyes with the rhythm of her process. She could, indeed, get there from here.ĭouglas would arrive soon, and he’d be happy to brush the snowflakes from her shoulders, take her someplace private and scotch-infused. The other directions-those he’d take from her. But this was the right corner, and Douglas had said he’d lived here for years, so she could rely on him for directions. Now, after just three weeks as a sales rep, she knew it was true, all of it. You can’t get there from here, people told her. They’d warned her, laughing, not to ask for directions. Boston was new to her too, with its treacherous weather and confusing streets and wary response to newcomers. Nora-for now-tried to calculate the life span of her most recent one as she waited on the corner of Tremont and Union Park, the evening’s first snowflakes beginning to accumulate on her new-to her-black cashmere coat. The First to Lie will be available on August 4th, 2020. Who will be the first to lie? And when the stakes are life and death, do a few lies really matter? A grieving widow who must choose her new reality. What she doesn’t know-she isn’t the only one plotting her revenge.Īn affluent daughter of privilege. We all have our reasons for being who we are-but what if being someone else could get you what you want?Īfter a devastating betrayal, a young woman sets off on an obsessive path to justice, no matter what dark family secrets are revealed. Bestselling and award-winning author and investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan delivers another twisty, thrilling cat and mouse novel of suspense that will have you guessing, and second-guessing, and then gasping with surprise.

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