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He doesn�t need a woman in his life; she knows he can�t live without her.


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A promise rekindled. A secret revealed. A second chance at the family they never had.


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A cowboy with a second chance. A waitress with a hidden gift. And a small town where love paints a brand-new beginning.


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She�s racing for a prize. He�s dodging romance. Together, they might just cross the finish line to love.


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She steals from the mob for justice. He�s the FBI agent who could take her down�or fall for her instead.


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He�s her only protection. She�s carrying his child. Together, they must outwit a killer before time runs out.


The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson

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Also by Nancy Johnson:

People of Means, February 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Kindest Lie, February 2022
Paperback / e-Book
The Kindest Lie, February 2021
Hardcover / e-Book

The Kindest Lie
Nancy Johnson

A Novel

William Morrow Paperbacks
February 2022
On Sale: February 1, 2022
Featuring: Ruth; Midnight
352 pages
ISBN: 0063005646
EAN: 9780063005648
Kindle: B086ZRRYCW
Paperback / e-Book
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Hardcover (February 2021)

Women's Fiction | Multicultural African-American

 

It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to—and was forced to leave behind—when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she’d never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past.

Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. As she begins digging into the past, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. Just as Ruth is about to uncover a burning secret her family desperately wants to keep hidden, a traumatic incident strains the town’s already searing racial tensions, sending Ruth and Midnight on a collision course that could upend both their lives.

 

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