Sara Shepard - Two Truths and a Lie - A Lying Game Novel

TWO

TRUTHS

AND

A LIE

A LYING GAME NOVEL

BY

SARA SHEPARD

Copyright Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph PROLOGUE : AN UNWANTED VISITOR CHAPTER 1 : SHE’S SEEN HIM CHAPTER 2 : A BOY NAMED TROUBLE CHAPTER 3 : EVERYONE LOVES A POET CHAPTER 4 : HOMECOMING HANGOVER CHAPTER 5 : GAME, SET, OUTMATCHED CHAPTER 6 : LITTLE EMMA IN THE BIG WOODS CHAPTER 7 : NIGHT HIKING CHAPTER 8 : WHAT NOW? CHAPTER 9 : STARSTRUCK CHAPTER 10 : GONNA GETCHA CHAPTER 11 : PARTY OF FOUR CHAPTER 12 : I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME ROAR CHAPTER 13 : LOVE, S. CHAPTER 14 : IF THE KEY FITS CHAPTER 15 : PROJECT: RUN AWAY CHAPTER 16 : THE MAKEUP CHAPTER 17 : THE FALSE BOTTOM CHAPTER 18 : VISITOR FOR VEGA CHAPTER 19 : CATCH ME IF YOU CAN CHAPTER 20 : BLOOD DOESN’T LIE CHAPTER 21 : MOTHER KNOWS BEST CHAPTER 22 : SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND CHAPTER 23 : THE PSYCHOPATH TEST CHAPTER 24 : WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? CHAPTER 25 : SOUND THE AL ARM CHAPTER 26 : FORECLOSED BUT NOT FORGOTTEN CHAPTER 27 : ONE FLEW THE COOP CHAPTER 28 : WE ALL FALL DOWN CHAPTER 29 : LIKE POISON CHAPTER 30 : CHEESE, MILK, AND EX-CONS CHAPTER 31 : MEET THE MERCERS EPILOGUE Keep Reading Acknowledgements Also by Sara Shepard About the Publisher

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Contents

Cover

Title Page TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE A LYING GAME NOVEL BY SARA SHEPARD

Copyright

Epigraph

PROLOGUE : AN UNWANTED VISITOR

CHAPTER 1 : SHE’S SEEN HIM

CHAPTER 2 : A BOY NAMED TROUBLE

CHAPTER 3 : EVERYONE LOVES A POET

CHAPTER 4 : HOMECOMING HANGOVER

CHAPTER 5 : GAME, SET, OUTMATCHED

CHAPTER 6 : LITTLE EMMA IN THE BIG WOODS

CHAPTER 7 : NIGHT HIKING

CHAPTER 8 : WHAT NOW?

CHAPTER 9 : STARSTRUCK

CHAPTER 10 : GONNA GETCHA

CHAPTER 11 : PARTY OF FOUR

CHAPTER 12 : I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME ROAR

CHAPTER 13 : LOVE, S.

CHAPTER 14 : IF THE KEY FITS

CHAPTER 15 : PROJECT: RUN AWAY

CHAPTER 16 : THE MAKEUP

CHAPTER 17 : THE FALSE BOTTOM

CHAPTER 18 : VISITOR FOR VEGA

CHAPTER 19 : CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

CHAPTER 20 : BLOOD DOESN’T LIE

CHAPTER 21 : MOTHER KNOWS BEST

CHAPTER 22 : SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND

CHAPTER 23 : THE PSYCHOPATH TEST

CHAPTER 24 : WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

CHAPTER 25 : SOUND THE AL ARM

CHAPTER 26 : FORECLOSED BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

CHAPTER 27 : ONE FLEW THE COOP

CHAPTER 28 : WE ALL FALL DOWN

CHAPTER 29 : LIKE POISON

CHAPTER 30 : CHEESE, MILK, AND EX-CONS

CHAPTER 31 : MEET THE MERCERS

EPILOGUE

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Acknowledgements

Also by Sara Shepard

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Epigraph

A half-truth is a whole lie.

—YIDDISH PROVERB

PROLOGUE

AN UNWANTED VISITOR

If anyone had peeked through my window, they would have thought it was just a normal slumber party, a festive night that involved popcorn, manicures, and six gorgeous girls from the most exclusive clique at Hollier High giving each other makeovers, sharing juicy gossip, and plotting their next prank for the Lying Game. My iPhone had dozens of photos of past sleepovers that looked exactly like it: a shot of my best friend, Madeline, holding up a picture of a model with fringe bangs and asking if the look would flatter her heart-shaped face; one of my other besties, Charlotte, sucking in her cheeks to apply the new shade of blush she’d bought at Sephora; one of my adoptive sister, Laurel, snickering at a D-list celeb in Us Weekly; and plenty of photos of me, Sutton Mercer, looking like the glamorous, powerful “It girl” I was.

But on this particular night, something was different . . . and five out of the six girls didn’t even know it. The girl my best friends were laughing with, the girl they thought was me . . . wasn’t. Because I was dead. My BFFs were talking to my long-lost twin, Emma, who’d taken my place.

I’d died a month ago and was now perched somewhere between the land of the living and the great beyond, watching my life continue, but with Emma as the star. Everywhere she went, I went, like we were still sharing the same womb. Bizarre, right? I didn’t think the afterlife would be like this either.

That night, I watched as my twin sister sat among my friends. Her legs were curled beneath her on the plush white sofa in the exact same way I used to sit. Her heavy-lidded eyes sparkled with my favorite silver MAC shadow. She even laughed the same way I did—loud, staccato, and a bit sarcastic. Over the past month she had perfected my mannerisms, answered to my name, and worn my clothes, all with the aim of being me until my murderer was exposed.

The worst part? I didn’t even remember who killed me. There were whole chunks of my life that had been wiped clean from my mind, and I was left wondering who I’d been, what I’d done, and who I’d pissed off so much that they’d murdered me and then tricked my sister into assuming my identity. Every once in a while I would get a sudden flash of lucidity and a whole scene would snap into brilliant clarity, but the moments before and after it? Complete blanks. It was like getting a few random screen-grabs from a ninety-minute movie and trying to make sense of the entire plot. If I wanted to find out what had happened to me, I would have to rely on Emma . . . and hope that she caught my killer before my killer caught her.