Zora Tempest
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Tides of Knowing · Book One

Lie to Me Instead

She knew. She stayed. She left when she was ready. There is a difference.

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Cover of Lie to Me Instead by Zora Tempest

Lie to me instead. That is what she never said.

Nine years of later. Nine years of giving a man room to become who she believed he could be and choosing, every time, not to say the one thing that would have ended it faster than the truth.

Titus Harrow is not a liar. He never promised anyone anything. He just made every woman in his life feel like the only one, and he was very, very good at it. Good enough that a city full of women each believed something different about what they were to him. Good enough that some of them still do.

This is not the story of a man who gets caught. This is the story of the women who already knew, and what they decided to do about it.

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For the women who already knew and read anyway.The Tides of Knowing series

About Zora

Zora Tempest writes contemporary romance told from more than one point of view, because no two women in the same story ever lived the same story. She writes about the moment before a woman decides, and the long quiet after.

Tides of Knowing is planned across five books. Lie to Me Instead is the first.

Published by Salt & Hum Press.

The series

  • Lie to Me Instead Book One
  • Book Two In progress
  • Books Three to Five Planned

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