The Five Year Lie

Name: The Five Year Lie
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SKU: 9781408749173
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A totally unputdownable domestic thriller with a pulse-pounding romance

By Sarina Bowen

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What if you got a text from the love of your life... five years after he died? On an ordinary Monday morning, Ariel's phone buzzes with a text: Something's happened. I need to see you. Meet me under the candelabra tree ASAP. Her heart skips a... Read More

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The Five Year Lie

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Bestselling romance author Sarina Bowen's debut domestic thriller, about one woman's relentless search for the truth after receiving a text from her dead ex.

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What if you got a text from the love of your life... five years after he died?

On an ordinary Monday morning, Ariel's phone buzzes with a text: Something's happened. I need to see you. Meet me under the candelabra tree ASAP.

Her heart skips a beat. The message is from Drew, the only guy she's ever loved. The father of her child. The man who up and left five years ago without a word. The man who died shortly after in a motorcycle accident.

The text upends everything she knew about the day he vanished. Only two things are clear: everything she was told back then is a lie, and someone is still deceiving her today.

The truth is out there, and Ariel will do anything to find it. But she has no idea that if it finds her first, she and her four-year-old son will be in terrible danger.

For fans of The Housemaid, It Ends With Us and The Last Thing He Told Me, and with a heart-stopping romance that only Sarina Bowen can execute, The Five Year Lie is a page-turning, spine-tingling thriller that will have you guessing until the very end.

YES, YES, YES!!! ... I absolutely loved this book. A little bit of romance, a lot of suspense, and all the best aspects of a domestic thriller. I fell in love... Will keep you turning the pages as fast as you can *

The best book I've read in a long time. Had me hooked from the first page and I had to hurry and figure out what happened! *

I loved it! This had me hooked right away ... Fast paced and twisty ... Will keep you on the edge of your seat *

I devoured it in two days *

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781408749173

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 May 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Renegade Books

Contributors:

Translated by Priscilla Layne

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 339g

Pages: 432

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About the Author

Sarina Bowen is a 24-time USA Today bestselling author, and a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance novels and domestic suspense. Formerly a derivatives trader on Wall Street, Sarina holds a BA in economics from Yale University. A New Englander whose Vermont ancestors cut timber and farmed the north country in the 1760s, Sarina is grateful for the invention of indoor plumbing and wi-fi during the intervening 250 years. She lives with her family on a few wooded acres in New Hampshire. Sarina's books are published in over a dozen languages with fifteen international publishers.

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