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Why She Lies: You Trusted the Wrong One
Paperback
Series: The Jade Duology, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
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Publisher: Rene Perez
Published: Apr 5 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Jade Sorel learned far too early that being good does not always help you survive.
She grew up surrounded by poverty, shame, and empty promises. She learned to see the world for what it truly was: a place where honesty is rarely enough, where dignity does not pay for escape, and where someone else's desire can become a ladder. Jade was not born wanting to destroy anyone. But she did grow tired of losing.
Beautiful, intelligent, and emotionally scarred, she quickly discovers that there are men willing to give everything for a woman like her. Attention. Gifts. Money. Doors. Power. And Jade learns to use every look, every silence, and every lie as part of her ascent. What begins as a way to escape misery soon turns into something far more dangerous: an ambition that no longer knows how to stop.
As she moves closer to luxury and to a life that once seemed impossible, she also begins to drift away from everything that might have saved her. Between obsessions, manipulation, secrets, and wounds that never truly closed, Jade becomes a woman capable of seducing, lying, and surviving... even if the price is losing herself in the process.
But even someone like her has a weak point.
Why She Lies is a dark, elegant, and intensely psychological novel about ambition, desire, identity, wounds, and the lies a woman may tell herself in order to keep climbing. A provocative and unsettling story that enters the mind of a protagonist as fascinating as she is dangerous.
Because sometimes the most devastating lie is not the one a woman tells the world.
It is the one she needs to believe in order to live with what she has become.
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