Too Good to Be True Spiral-Bound | 2022-02-01

Carola Lovering

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An obsessive, addictive love story for fans of Lisa Jewell and The Wife Upstairs, from Carola Lovering, the beloved author of Tell Me Lies.

ONE LOVE STORY. TWO MARRIAGES. THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH.

Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips--she's smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family--she's also battled crippling OCD ever since her mother's death when she was eleven, and her romantic relationships have suffered as a result.

But now Burke--handsome, older, and more emotionally mature than any man she's met before--says he wants her. Forever. Except, Burke isn't who he claims to be. And interspersed letters to his therapist reveal the truth: he's happily married, and using Skye for his own, deceptive ends.

In a third perspective, set thirty years earlier, a scrappy seventeen-year-old named Heather is determined to end things with Burke, a local bad boy, and make a better life for herself in New York City. But can her adolescent love stay firmly in her past--or will he find his way into her future?

On a collision course she doesn't see coming, Skye throws herself into wedding planning, as Burke's scheme grows ever more twisted. But of course, even the best laid plans can go astray. And just when you think you know where this story is going, you'll discover that there's more than one way to spin the truth.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 1250759900
Item Weight: 0.7 lbs
Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
Customer Reviews: 3 out of 5 stars 10,001 to 50,000 ratings
"Lovering, a master of manipulation, does a skillful job of gradually unspooling her intricate tapestry of psychological intrigue while deftly juggling her multiple narratives." --Kirkus, starred review

"A head-spinningly devious plot [with] a plethora of twists." --Publishers Weekly

"A firecracker of a novel." --Booklist, starred review

"Twists, lies, cons, oh my. You'll be guessing the ending until the last twisty page." --TheSkimm

CAROLA LOVERING is the author of the novels Tell Me Lies, Too Good to Be True, and Can't Look Away. She is a graduate of Colorado College, and her work has appeared in New York Magazine, W Magazine, National Geographic, Outside, and Yoga Journal, among other publications. Her novel, Tell Me Lies, is now a television series for Hulu. She lives in Connecticut with her family.