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Innocence Was My First Lie
Paperback
Publisher: Prosee Books
Published: Jul 6 2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Some families keep secrets. Some secrets keep you.
When Clara returns to the fog-soaked streets of Meadowbrook after her grandmother's death, she expects grief. What she finds instead is a town that flinches at her questions, a mother who speaks only in silences, and a leather-bound diary hidden in a locked attic drawer - one that suggests everything Clara thought she knew about her family was carefully, deliberately wrong.
Margot's diary doesn't offer answers. It offers fragments - cryptic confessions, half-erased names, and whispered warnings that seep through the ink like old wounds reopening. The more Clara reads, the clearer it becomes: her grandmother wasn't just a woman who kept secrets. She was a woman who paid a price for them. And now, that price has been passed down.
Armed with charcoal, courage, and a stubborn refusal to let the fog win, Clara begins to pull at the threads - through hushed conversations in harbor cafés, wary elders with iron-hard stares, and the boy she once trusted who now warns her to stop. Every answer leads to a darker question. Every truth disturbs something that was never meant to breathe daylight.
But Clara is done mistaking silence for peace.
Part family mystery, part coming-of-age reckoning, Shadows Over Meadowbrook is a haunting, atmospheric novel about the stories we inherit, the lies we're raised to protect, and the fierce, fragile courage it takes to finally tell the truth.
Perfect for fans of: Where the Crawdads Sing - The Secret History - Big Little Lies
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