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Also by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen:

Handle with Care, April 2026
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
This Secret Thing, October 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
Only Ever Her, May 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
When We Were Worthy, September 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
The Things We Wish Were True, September 2016
Paperback / e-Book

THE THINGS WE WISH WERE TRUE
By: Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

Lake Union Publishing
September 2016
On Sale: September 1, 2016
276 pages
ISBN: 1503936074
EAN: 9781503936072
Kindle: B019K2JGYE
Paperback / e-Book
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Women's Fiction

In an idyllic small-town neighborhood, a near tragedy triggers a series of dark revelations.

From the outside, Sycamore Glen, North Carolina, might look like the perfect all-American neighborhood. But behind the white picket fences lies a web of secrets that reach from house to house.

Up and down the streets, neighbors quietly bear the weight of their own pasts—until an accident at the community pool upsets the delicate equilibrium. And when tragic circumstances compel a woman to return to Sycamore Glen after years of self-imposed banishment, the tangle of the neighbors’ intertwined lives begins to unravel.

During the course of a sweltering summer, long-buried secrets are revealed, and the neighbors learn that it’s impossible to really know those closest to us. But is it impossible to love and forgive them?