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Only One Lie

Audrey J. Cole

From the author of The Pilot's Daughter and The Final Hunt comes a thrilling, suspense-driven mystery set in World War II-era Seattle.

Seattle, 1942. News of the war is interrupted by the kidnapping of young Max Ellis, heir to the wealthiest banking family on the west coast. When the boy's parents comply with the ransom demands, the kidnapper is found dead and their son remains missing. For newlywed Vera Chandler, the story hits close to home-her husband Hugh is just six months into his job as the Ellis's private pilot.

Within days, Hugh is deployed to the Pacific as a navy pilot, while Vera's flying instructor and best friend joins the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. Left alone, her parents' words haunt her: If you really wanted to serve your country, you wouldn't have dropped out of nursing school.

In an exchange for a favor that Vera can't refuse, she is pulled into the Ellis family affairs by the desperate mother of the missing child. The Ellis family, Vera learns firsthand, is as dangerous as they are rich. Soon, she is in a race to save the child's life, and it could be the only way she can save her own.

GenresFictionHistoricalMystery & DetectiveWomen SleuthsThrillersSuspense

302 pages, 2 editions

English edition · First published 2022 by Rainier Publishing · ISBN 9781737360766

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2 editions

English

  • Only One Lie · Rainier Publishing · 2022 · ISBN 9781737360766 · 1 reader This page
  • Only One Lie · Rainier Publishing · 2022 · ISBN 9781737360759

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