The Darkest Lie

Is it better to live with a lie, or risk everything for the truth?"Heartbreaking and heroic. You won't be able to turn the pages fast enough!" —Romily Bernard, author of the Find Me trilogyIn Pintip Dunn's gripping and timely novel, a young woman whose life unravels in the wake of her mother's alleged suicide sets out to clear her name."The mother I knew would never do those things. But maybe I never knew her after all." Clothes, jokes, coded messages...Cecilia Brooks and her mom shared everything. At least, CeCe thought they did. Six months ago, her mom killed herself after accusations of having sex with a student, and CeCe's been the subject of whispers and taunts ever since. Now, at the start of her high school senior year, between dealing with her grieving, distracted father, and the social nightmare that has become her life, CeCe just wants to fly under the radar. Instead, she's volunteering at the school's crisis hotline—the...