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I''m in your house. I''m your friend. You can trust me. A voice-driven, read-in-one-night suspense thriller coming to you in 2025. ''This smart, original, twisty story had me gripped from the first to the last page. I just had to keep reading!'' Liane Moriarty ''Readers will find themselves racing through the final, jaw-dropping pages , desperate to gather every last clue of this astonishing web of lies'' Katy Hays ''Utterly gripping and unputdownable '' Amy Tintera ''Get ready for a rollercoaster of twists '' Liv Constantine ''Sophie Stava masterfully weaves suspense, deception, and heart into a brilliant, twisty thriller that keeps you guessing until the very last page.'' Trisha Sahklecha _________ Sloane Caraway is a liar. They are harmless lies, she tells herself, to make her own life a bit more interesting. So when she sees a child in tears in a playground one afternoon, she tells the girl''s (very attractive) dad she''s a nurse and helps him pull a bee sting from his daughter''s foot. With this lie and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for Jay and Violet Lockhart who have everything: a beautiful brownstone house, a daughter in private nursery school, and long summers on an idyllic island just off the coast of New York. Sloane wants to be just like them. She wants their life and she''s prepared to lie about almost everything to get it. But Sloane isn''t the only one lying, and soon she begins to realise that all that''s picture-perfect about her employers hides a much more dangerous truth . . .
About the author
Sophie has loved to read as long as she can remember. Her passion for reading lead her to study English Literature at University of California Santa Barbara, where received her B.A. She spent a number of years as (among other things) an event planner, executive recruiter, and ghostwriter before pursuing her own writing. She currently resides in Southern California with her family. When she isn't writing, you'll find her reading, acting as personal assistant to her children, and travelling. Count My Lies is her debut novel.
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