THE DAY WE ALL LIED

Twelve people sat down to dinner. Seven minutes later, one of them was gone. And every person left at the table was lying.

For eighteen years, five families on Alder Lane have shared everything.

Birthdays. Marriages. Divorces. Children. Vacations. Secrets.

On Daniel Cross's fortieth birthday, twelve old friends gather around the same table for what should be an ordinary celebration.

At 9:17 p.m., the power goes out.

At 9:24, the lights return.

Daniel is gone.

His phone is still on the table.
His car is outside.
His coat is hanging by the door.

And on his empty chair is a white envelope.

Inside is a single message:

EVERY PERSON AT THIS TABLE HAS LIED ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED HERE EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO.

The eleven remaining guests insist they have no idea what it means.

Then police discover a hidden room behind Daniel's pantry.

Inside are eleven boxes.

One for every person who stayed at the table.

Each contains evidence of a secret Daniel has been collecting for years.

A hidden bank account.
Anonymous letters.
An affair nobody confessed.
A photograph that should not exist.
And evidence connected to a fire eighteen years earlier that destroyed an innocent man's life.

As marriages fracture and old friends turn on one another, one question becomes impossible to ignore:

Was Daniel the victim of the night-or did he plan the entire thing?

But Daniel's disappearance is only the beginning.

Because someone at the table knew what he was planning.

Someone changed the game.

And the story eleven people have repeated for eighteen years was never the truth.

THE DAY WE ALL LIED is a psychological suspense novel about friendship, marriage, guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying power of a lie that becomes easier to believe every time it is told.