The Lying Game #5: Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard

The Lying Game #5: Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard

The search for Sutton's killer continues in this fifth title in the suspenseful and twisted Lying Game series by Sara Shepard, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series.

Ever since Sutton Mercer's murderer tricked her long-lost twin, Emma, into coming to Tucson, Emma has been trying to solve the mystery of Sutton's death. And now someone else is back in town--Becky, Sutton and Emma's birth mother.

As Emma gets closer to discovering what exactly happened the night Sutton was killed, she learns that Becky isn't all that she seems. Turns out Sutton wasn't the only Mercer girl with dark secrets. . . .

• A High-Stakes Impersonation: Emma must navigate Sutton's privileged and dangerous world, where one wrong move could expose her secret--and make her the killer's next target.
• Psychological Suspense: Their birth mother, Becky, is back, but her erratic behavior and dark past make her the prime suspect. Can Emma trust the woman who abandoned her, or is she playing a deadly game?
• A Complicated Love Triangle: While pretending to be Sutton, Emma finds herself torn between her own feelings for the intense Ethan and the undeniable pull of Sutton's old flame, the charming Thayer Vega.
• Long-Lost Twin Mystery: The deeper Emma digs, the more she realizes Sutton wasn't the girl everyone thought she was. Solving this murder means unraveling the lies of the sister she never knew.

Sara Shepard is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series. Her first story ever, which she both wrote and illustrated, was about friendly yellow creatures that lived in a backyard garden. It won second prize at the State College, Pennsylvania, library and was bound and placed on the shelf. Shepard and her sister, Alison, have been creating many joint creative projects for years-claymation movies, art installations, and video game designs-based on a world they made up when they were six and nine years old. They're pretty sure they're the only ones who find the world funny, though.