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I Knew He Was Lying
Paperback
Series: An After Midnight Novel, Book 2
Publisher: Sadie Cross
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
She satisfies every lie within three dates. She stays anyway.
Monroe Fitch is a data analyst who sees patterns the way other people see colors - automatically, compulsively, without mercy. Raised by an undiagnosed bipolar mother whose moods she learned to predict before she could read, Monroe built her entire life on one principle: if you can see the mechanism, you can survive it.
Then she meets Wes Chandler.
Charming. Attentive. Sun-weathered and deliberate. A man whose slow-building smile feels less like warmth and more like a controlled detonation. Monroe spots the first lie before dessert. By their third date, she's identified three behavioral inconsistencies, a suspiciously thin digital footprint, and a head tilt that appears every time he fabricates.
Any rational woman would leave. Monroe opens a spreadsheet.
She calls it Project Atlas. Entry by entry, date by date, she documents Wes's deceptions with the clinical precision of a quarterly report - the phone always face-down, the rehearsed backstory with shifting details, the way his tenderness is always preceded by a half-second of stillness, as though kindness is a decision he makes rather than a feeling he has.
847 entries. Nine months. A complete map of a man built from lies.
But the dossier becomes something Monroe didn't plan for: a mirror. The deeper she catalogs his manipulation, the more she discovers that her obsessive surveillance has become its own trap - a way to stay inside a dangerous relationship while telling herself she's in control. Her clinical language begins to crack. The scientist becomes the subject.
Because Wes isn't just lying to Monroe. He's studying her too. And when she discovers the file on his laptop - a dossier with her name on it, with entries that predate their first meeting - the game she thought she was playing reveals itself as something far more sophisticated, far more intimate, and far more devastating than she imagined.
I Knew He Was Lying is a dark, cerebral psychological thriller about the lies we tell ourselves to justify staying, the difference between seeing a trap and escaping it, and a woman who documented her own undoing in the precise, controlled voice of someone who believed understanding danger was the same as being protected from it.
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