When Maya was 14, her father and mother were killed before
her eyes. Her older sister, Rebecca, raised her, but
something changed between the sisters that fateful night.
Secrets kept for many years would only make their
relationship even more strained. For appearances they kept
up, each loving the other, yet secretly wanting something
different. They both became accomplished physicians.
Rebecca, the stronger of the two, worked for a volunteer
agency that flew all over the world taking care of victims
of disasters.
Maya has been married to Adam, another doctor, for several
years. Adam desperately wants children and Maya has not
been able to carry the babies to full term. Her
relationship is strained with Adam, but when their
specialist asks a question, Maya finally reveals one of her
secrets, which drives Adam away. He feels betrayed that she
didn't love him enough to trust him, and they grow father
apart.
Rebecca's boyfriend wants to marry her, but she just wants
sex when she wants it. And neither wants children. She
isn't ready to marry, but when her sister loses yet another
baby, something clicks inside Rebecca and she finds she
does want children after all.
When a hurricane hits the coast of North Carolina, Rebecca
needs help. She asks her brother-in-law to come help with
all the wounded. Adam is excited to assist. But when they
ask Maya to join them, she is so timid and declines. She's
never really gotten over the night her parents were killed
and everything scares her. But when Adam goes to help and
Maya is left alone with the storm swirling around, she
knows she must be with Adam if she is to save her marriage.
Maya goes to the disaster site and impresses both her
sister and her husband. She even shakily agrees to get on a
helicopter to transport several victims in need of surgery.
But when the helicopter crashes and everyone else is
killed, Maya wakes up in a cabin on a little island of land
surrounded by flood waters. And her life is about to get
hellish.
Meanwhile, Rebecca and Adam must come to terms with the
final report from search-and-rescue that all were lost in
the helicopter crash. How can they go on without Maya?
Their grief goes through the normal stages, until they
reach the point where they turn to each other and find
love. But what happens when Maya returns?
THE LIES WE TOLD is a tender story of two sisters' path
toward rediscovering their friendship for each other. Their
lack of honest communication into adulthood created a chasm
in their relationship that neither woman acknowledged until
a tragedy came directly in their path. Diane
Chamberlain beautifully bares their dreams and their
souls in THE LIES WE TOLD, and I am thoroughly pleased that
I had the opportunity to read this novel.
Maya and Rebecca Ward are both accomplished physicians, but
that's where the sisters' similarities end. As teenagers,
they witnessed their parents' murder, but it was Rebecca
who saved Maya from becoming another of the gunman's
victims. The tragedy left Maya cautious and timid, settling
for a sedate medical practice with her husband, Adam, while
Rebecca became the risk taker.
After a devastating hurricane hits the coast of North
Carolina, Rebecca and Adam urge Maya to join them in the
relief effort. To please her husband, Maya finally agrees.
She loses herself in the care and transport of victims, but
when her helicopter crashes into raging floodwaters, there
appear to be no survivors.
Forced to accept Maya is gone, Rebecca and Adam turn to one
another—first for comfort, then in passion—unaware that,
miles from civilization, Maya is injured and trapped with
strangers she's not certain she can trust. Away from the
sister who has always been there to save her, now Maya must
find the courage to save herself—unaware that the life she
knew has changed forever.
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