Too Good to Be True: A Novel

About this book

ONE LOVE STORY. TWO MARRIAGES. THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH. Too Good to Be True is an obsessive addictive love story for fans of Lisa Jewell and The Wife Upstairs from Carola Lovering the beloved author of Tell Me Lies. Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend Burke Michaels proposes after a whirlwind courtship. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertipsshes smart beautiful and from a well-off familyshes also battled crippling OCD ever since her mothers death when she was eleven and her romantic relationships have suffered as a result. But now Burkehandsome older and more emotionally mature than any man shes met beforesays he wants her. Forever. Except Burke isnt who he claims to be. And interspersed letters to his therapist reveal the truth: hes happily married and using Skye for his own deceptive ends. In a third perspective set thirty years earlier a scrappy seventeen-year-old named Heather is determined to end things with Burke a local bad boy and make a better life for herself in New York City. But can her adolescent love stay firmly in her pastor will he find his way into her future? On a collision course she doesnt see coming Skye throws herself into wedding planning as Burkes scheme grows ever more twisted. But of course even the best laid plans can go astray. And just when you think you know where this story is going youll discover that theres more than one way to spin the truth.