Tell Me Lies: A Novel

ISBN: 1501169645

Author: Lovering, Carola

Condition: New

Named a Best Book of Summer by Parade * Refinery29 * PopSugar * Bustle * Working Mother * Town & Country * Thought Catalog * PureWow * Betches * Literary Hub * BridesThink: The Affair meets Animal House meets your beach bag. Get into it.-TheSkimmA twisted modern love story. -ParadeEverything you could ever want in a summer read. -USA TODAYEveryone remembers the one. No, not that one. The other one. The one you couldnt let go of. The one youll never forget.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 shes never forgiven for an act of betrayal in her early teen years. Quickly grasping at her fresh start, Lucy embraces college life and all it has to offer-new friends, wild parties, stimulating classes. And then she meets Stephen DeMarco. Charming. Attractive. Complicated. Devastating.Confident and cocksure, Stephen sees something in Lucy that no one else has, and shes quickly seduced by this vision of herself, and the sense of possibility that his attention brings her. 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, Lucys heart.Lucy knows theres something about Stephen that isnt to be trusted. Stephen knows Lucy cant tear herself away. And their addicting entanglement will have consequences they never could have imagined.Alternating between Lucys and Stephens voices, Tell Me Lies follows their connection through college and post-college life in New York City. With psychological insight and biting wit, this keenly intelligent and staggeringly resonant novel chronicles the yearning ambitions, desires, and dilemmas of young adulthood, and the difficulty of letting go, even when you know you should.