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The Lie Collector: A Novel of the Manhattan Project
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $20.95
ISBN13: 9781685138493
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: Jan 28 2027
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a city built on secrets, the truth could cost her everything.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1945. When Lucy Mercer slips into America's most secret city searching for her missing fiancé, she expects answers. Instead, she finds a world built on silence, suspicion, and compartmentalized truths, where no one is supposed to ask questions and nearly everyone is hiding something. It's a place where people don't just get lost-they are erased.
Working as a driver inside the heavily guarded wartime project, Lucy moves between the powerful men, restless workers, and tightly controlled spaces of Oak Ridge, gathering fragments of a mystery that grows darker the closer she gets to the truth. As she pieces together what happened to Greg, she must also reckon with shifting loyalties, the seduction of reinvention, and the possibility that the future she once imagined is already gone.
This vivid reimagining of the home front combines meticulous historical detail with heart-pounding suspense. Rich in atmosphere, emotional tension, and historical detail, The Lie Collector is a captivating historical thriller about secrecy, identity, love, and the lengths a woman will go for the truth.
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