E. Lockhart

The thrilling prequel to the TikTok phenomenon We Were Liars takes readers back to the summer that the Sinclair family’s lives changed forever.
 
A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts.
A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow.
A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy.
A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes.
Twenty-seven years before the events of We Were Liars comes another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades—a story that is scandalous, tragic, and layered with mystery.

Welcome back to the Sinclair family.
They were always liars.
 
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The addictive prequel to the TikTok phenomenon We Were Liars: the story of another summer, another generation—and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come.
 
"I anticipated that at some point a shocking twist would come. And, wow, does it ever." —The New York Times
 
"A perfect beach read." —The Boston Globe

We Were Liars #2

Family of Liars

Laura Poghosyan 

Keira 💫

High Fidelity

This book contains spoilers for the novel We Were Liars.

I love you, and I wrote this for you—with ambition and black coffee.

We show our love not with honesty or affection, but with loyalty.

Penny shakes the 8 Ball while I rummage some more. “Will I fall in love?” she asks it.

“Will I at least make out with someone? This summer? Anyone?”

“Ugh. Will there be kissing?” she asks, exasperated.

We do not know the boys are coming then. We don’t know how they will spin us around, rile us; change our conceptions of ourselves and upend our lives like drunken gods playing with the fates of mortals.

She is a ghost climbing out of the sea, returning to the spot where no one loved her quite enough to keep her safe.

Now I’m sorry for every time I ever said no to her. But isn’t that how people always feel when someone dies? It’s a cliché. You wish. You’re sorry.

Like me, Cinderella is made over from deformity to beauty and social elevation.

I am vain and consumed with my own internal life,

drunk on the hot liquor of the desire for parental approval,

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