Lie Lay Lain

by Bryn Greenwood

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Pub Date Apr 03 2014 | Archive Date Jun 05 2014

Stairway Press, The Armchair Adventurer

New Adult | Women's Fiction

Description

Jennifer has a great job and a go-getter fiancé. She’s on track for success, until she witnesses a fatal hit-and-run. Mistaking Jennifer for someone else, the dying victim extracts an impossible promise. Jennifer’s fiancé wants her to forget the whole incident, but when she closes her eyes, she can still see the bloody face of the woman who asked for her help.

Olivia is in a rut. Burdened with caring for her brain-damaged brother and already feeling like a spinster at 27, she’s desperate to escape. In a moment of weakness, she tells a lie that draws an unsuspecting paramedic into her life. As she struggles to expiate the lie, a horrible act of violence will test her resolve to be honest.

Where Jennifer’s promise and Olivia’s lie intersect, their lives begin to unravel.

Advance Praise

In Bryn Greenwood's gritty and unsentimental novel, characters struggle to balance what they know to be true against how the world wishes to see them. Dryly humorous and quirky, you'll find yourself thinking about the issues it raises long after you've turned the final page. --Liz Michalski, author of Evenfall

Rarely does one find a character-centered book so gripping. From first page to last, Lie Lay Lain is impossible to put down. Greenwood's eye for detail is phenomenal, and her dialogue so pitch-perfect that I don't even feel like I've just read a book. I feel like I've become intimately acquainted with two very real people - aspirations, faults, insecurities and all. I tried to start another book after I finished Greenwood's, and I couldn't do it. Jennifer and Olivia were people to me; I cared about them deeply, and I needed time to let them go. ~Ramsey Hootman, author of Courting Greta

In Bryn Greenwood's gritty and unsentimental novel, characters struggle to balance what they know to be true against how the world wishes to see them. Dryly humorous and quirky, you'll find...