The Honest Liar - Softcover

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THE HONEST LIAR A Novel He never told her a single lie. That was how he did it. Iris Odell was the best investigative journalist of her generation — until one story ended a man's career and quietly began the unmaking of her own. Three years later she's writing filler for a dying magazine, nursing a suspicion she got something wrong, and going home to a cold flat with a broken boiler. Then the magazine is bought, and a stranger takes the worst desk in the office. Eli Mercer says almost nothing. He cuts her budget, kills her stories, and answers every question with exactly as many words as it takes and not one more. Iris dislikes him on sight — and she's right to, and wrong about why. Because Eli is not the quiet money-man he appears to be. He came into that building for a reason. And the reason is her. What follows is a love story built on the most dangerous kind of deception: one made entirely of true things. No false word is ever spoken. Instead, a woman who has spent her life uncovering how people come to believe things is walked — slowly, patiently, and with terrible care — to conclusions that feel like her own, until she can no longer tell which of her certainties were ever hers and which were placed in her hands. As the two of them chase a fraud with real victims and a ticking deadline, Iris edges closer to the biggest story of her life and to the one truth the man beside her cannot say. She has told him the single thing she can never forgive. He has already done it. And when she finally understands what the office was really for, she'll face a wound that cuts both ways — because the cruelty done to her grew from a corner she once cut herself, and forgiveness, if it is possible at all, will have to be for something neither of them can undo. Sharp, slow-burning, and quietly devastating, THE HONEST LIAR is an enemies-to-lovers workplace romance with a knife hidden in it — a novel about deception and integrity, ambition and its cost, and the strange arithmetic of loving someone you can never fully trust. For readers who love intelligent, character-driven romance where the tension is emotional, the banter is real, and the ending is earned rather than given. Some lies you catch because there's a fact at the bottom. This one has no bottom at all. Whose hand is on your back?

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