After being framed by her leering, skeevy foster brother for petty theft and facing an uncertain future, Emma is shocked to discover a video uploaded online that shows a blindfolded girl being strangled and falling unconscious–a girl who looks exactly like Emma. will race through the pages as Emma pieces together clues and will have plenty to ponder as they anticipate the next installment.'- Publishers Weekly'The Lying Game is a stay-up-past-your-bedtime type of thriller.full of amazingly believable plot twists and turns.'-Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) (starred review)'A thrilling mystery with just the right doses of romance and danger.Seventeen year old Emma Paxton has bounced in and out of foster homes since she was four years old, when her mother left her at a friend’s house for a play date, never to return again. Review Quotes 'A fun and fast-moving mystery. But can she laugh at inside jokes with my best friends? Convince my boyfriend she's the girl he fell in love with? Hug my parents good night like she's their daughter? And can she keep up the charade even after she realizes my murderer is watching her every move? Now, in order to figure out what happened to me, Emma needs to become me. Even in death I'm getting something no one else does: an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin sister I never got to meet. I may not remember much, but I know I led a charmed life. Perfect for fans of Sara Shepard's #1 New York Times bestselling series Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game has all the juicy plot lines, to-die-for lifestyles, and compelling secrets that fans love.

Unfortunately, taking over Sutton's life means innocent little Emma has inherited all that bad blood-and then some. When it becomes clear that Sutton is not coming back, that someone made sure she never could, Emma plunges in to investigate who could have wanted her sister gone (a fairly long list, she discovers). She contacts Sutton, who agrees to a rendezvous but never shows up.Ĭurious at first, Emma slips into Sutton's ultra-glamorous life, assuming her identity. Shortly before her seventeenth birthday, Emma discovers she has a long-lost twin named Sutton Mercer.

The first book in the New York Times bestselling series The Lying Game, by the author of the bestselling Pretty Little Liars series, Sara Shepard. About the Book Includes an excerpt from The lying game, book two, 'Never have I ever.'

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