A Captivating Lie

A Dark Mother-Daughter Psychological Thriller

THE WORLD SEES A SURVIVOR. HER MOTHER SEES A MONSTER.

Zoe Montgomery has become the face of teenage resilience. Viral keynote speaker. Trauma advocate. The girl who turned her painful past into a message of hope.

But her mother Claire knows the truth: Zoe doesn't heal people. She studies them. Teaches them. She architects their destruction while they thank her for the blueprint.

When another girl jumps from a parking garage following Zoe's encouragement, Claire makes an impossible choice. She kidnaps her own daughter. Locks her in a soundproof basement in the high desert. Ninety days to break the pattern. Ninety days to force a cure.

But Claire has made three fatal mistakes:

She believes Zoe is the prisoner.
She believes the basement is private.
She believes the cage was her idea.

In this shattering conclusion to the Lies We Keep trilogy, the question isn't whether Zoe Montgomery can be saved. It's whether anyone who tries will survive the attempt.