Publication Date: September 22, 2026
Everything he knows about his life is. . . a lie.
Blindsided by the sudden death of his mother, 21-year-old Will Lockhart can no longer afford the rent or bear the haunting memories of their shared Massachusetts apartment. While packing up his mother’s belongings, he discovers his long-dead father’s deed to a house in upstate New York. With nowhere else to go, he settles there, intent on making a fresh start. But odd things happen as soon as Will moves in. He’s unnerved by evidence of fire damage in the cottage, and alarmed by the seizure his elderly next-door neighbor suffers upon meeting him. Most shocking of all are the rumors of a long-ago murder in his house. Now, trapped in a town full of strangers, unsure of whether local murmurings are true or simply small-town gossip, he’s determined to discover what really happened all those years ago, and how he’s connected to the chaos. The truth will set him free. Or get him killed.
A young man learns his life is a mixture of fact and fiction after his mother’s sudden death.
Author Jennifer Sadera serves up a psychological thriller in Maybe You Lied. From the beginning, the suspense is thick as we are introduced to 21-year-old Will Lockhart, who is struggling with grief.
Finding the deed to an unfamiliar property among his mother’s belongings seems like an opportunity since he is on the verge of being evicted.
The property, though, comes with a history Will knows nothing about. The author weaves hints of a mysterious past tied to Will’s sister and father. The more he digs, the closer he gets to danger. Do the other characters know more about his past?
Maybe You Lied explores the depths of family trauma with a jaw-dropping conclusion.
Jennifer Sadera first worked in the publishing industry as a junior copywriter for NAL/Penguin. She has written and edited for newspapers and magazines as a freelancer and on the staffs of major women’s publications, Woman’s World and Redbook.
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