The Lie Between Us: How Far Would You Go to Protect the Truth You Never Told?
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Vicunacorp Publishing
Published: Apr 17 2026
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Lie Between Us is a gripping psychological thriller wrapped in the fragile intimacy of marriage, where love is tested against suspicion, memory, and the terrifying possibility of betrayal.
Elizabeth Carter wakes to a morning that should have been ordinary. Instead, she finds a dead man in her living room. There are no signs of forced entry. The doors are locked. The windows untouched. And the most unsettling truth of all: neither she nor her husband, Lucas, claims to know who the man is.
What follows is not just an investigation, but a slow unraveling.
As police begin to dig deeper, so do Elizabeth and Lucas, not into the crime, but into each other. Small inconsistencies surface. Timelines no longer align. Details once taken for granted begin to feel uncertain, then suspicious, then dangerous. Every answer only sharpens a more disturbing question: how well do you really know the person you married?
Told through shifting perspectives and layered with emotional tension, the novel explores the quiet fractures that can exist beneath even the most seemingly perfect relationships. Memory becomes unreliable. Trust becomes a risk. And love, once a source of safety, turns into something that can just as easily conceal the truth as reveal it.
At its core, The Lie Between Us is not just about a murder. It is about the lies we tell to protect ourselves, the truths we hide to protect others, and the devastating cost of discovering which is which.
Because sometimes, the most dangerous secrets are not the ones we keep from the world... but the ones we keep from each other.
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