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"True Lies"


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 "True Lies"  Book One of the "True Lies" Trilogy

The last time Dajah Moore took a chance, she was eight, and a wild, downhill bike ride left her with a scar on her knee – which is nothing compared to the ones that now criss-cross her heart. Life has made Dajah into a cautious and wise sister who’s a hardworking accountant that doesn’t hand out second chances. When she meets Rick Trimmons, the handsome corrections officer, she falls hard. Everything about Rick, from his soulful eyes to his straightforward talk, tells Dajah she’s met someone who will never play her, but Rick‘s five year old daughter Kanisha and the antics of Kanisha’s mother —Gina— says different. With the emotional resonance of real, complicated lives, True Lies is about life’s uneasy answers, and how sometimes we live lies for so long, it becomes our truth…