# The Five Year Lie

**Author(s):** Sarina Bowen
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**Genres:** thriller, mystery, romance, literary-fiction, contemporary
**Pages:** 432
**Publisher:** Dialogue Books
**Published:** Mon Jan 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780063280601
**ISBN-10:** 0063280612
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-five-year-lie

## Description

*She thought it was love. Then he vanished.*

On an ordinary Monday morning, Ariel Cafferty's phone buzzes with a disturbing text message. Something’s happened. I need to see you. Meet me under the candelabra tree ASAP. The words would be jarring from anyone, but the sender is the only man she ever loved. And it's been several years since she learned he died.

Seeing Drew’s name pop up is heart-stopping. Ariel’s gut says it can’t be real. But she goes to the tree anyway. She has to.

Nobody shows. But the text upends everything she thought she knew about the day he left her. The more questions she asks, the more sinister the answers get. Only two things are clear: everything she was told five years ago is wrong, and someone is still lying to her.

The truth has to be out there somewhere. To safeguard herself—and her son—she’ll have to find it before it finds her. And with it, the answer to what became of Drew.

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