Book Review: The Lies We Play

 




Tropes:
🏒Why Choose / MMF
🏒Secret Marriage
🏒Second Chance Romance
🏒Forced Separation
🏒Amnesia
🏒Hockey Romance
🏒Old Money Family Drama
🏒Romantic Suspense
🏒Hidden Conspiracy
🏒He remembers her body before his mind catches up
🏒The marriage was legal, but the love was always three
🏒Touch her and find out
🏒Found family over blood family
🏒The body remembers what the world erased

I had two men, one secret marriage, and a love the law refused to name.

Then came the accident.

When I woke up, Halston Saint Claire was hidden behind his family’s money, lawyers, and lies. Creed Lafontaine was gone. Everyone around me insisted the rings, the vows, the three of us—it was all trauma talking.

So I did what broken girls with color-coded calendars and trust issues do best.

I survived.

Now I live in Florence, restoring damaged art and pretending the past doesn’t still have its hands on me. Until one forged document drags me back into the Saint Claire world, where old money buries truth, families weaponize concern, and the two men I never stopped loving are closer than I’m ready for.

Creed remembers everything.

Halston remembers in fragments.

And I remember enough to know our love wasn’t the lie.

It was the thing everyone tried to erase.

Now the three of us have one chance to uncover what really happened that night, reclaim the marriage stolen from us, and decide whether a love built for three can survive ten years of betrayal.

Because in the Saint Claire world, love was never the most dangerous thing.

It was the lies we played to survive it.


My Review

Talk about a soap opera. Just kidding. Maybe not fully kidding. Olivia suffers a trauma event, only to find out that she does not remember anything. Creed and Halston fight for Olivia. I can't pick a favorite between the two guys as each one brought something different to the relationship with Olivia. 

I listened to the ALC version of this book. If you love audiobooks, you will want to grab the ALC. Check out this list of narrators, Grace Grant, Robert Hatchet, and Stephen Borne. Listening to all three narrate the audiobook is great. They helped to elevate the story. This story may be light on the spice, but it makes up for with emotions. 


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