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Also by Lucinda Berry:

Her First Lie, April 2026
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One in Four, May 2025
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If You Tell a Lie, August 2024
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Keep Your Friends Close, November 2023
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Off the Deep End, January 2023
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The Secrets of Us, July 2021
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The Best of Friends, August 2020
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HER FIRST LIE
By: Lucinda Berry

Thomas & Mercer
April 2026
On Sale: April 21, 2026
Featuring: Becky Watson; Orion; Becky
287 pages
ISBN: 1662526067
EAN: 9781662526060
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Thriller Psychological

In this chilling prequel to The Perfect Child, USA Today bestselling author Lucinda Berry plunges readers into the dark origins of a family’s secrets, where good intentions pave the road to unspeakable acts and a mother’s love might be the deadliest inheritance of all.

Becky Watson learned early that trust is a weapon and secrets are survival. From foster homes to abandoned backroads, she and her childhood confidant Orion have buried more than just memories. Now, as a college freshman, Becky’s harboring her most dangerous secret yet: her newborn daughter, Janie.

Desperation drives Becky to contact her estranged grandmother, Lillian. She swoops in like a guardian angel, but her salvation comes with a poisoned price tag. Behind Lillian’s nurturing facade lurks a web of generational secrets. As buried truths claw their way to the surface, Becky faces an impossible choice: sacrifice her daughter or herself to break a twisted family legacy.