𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚊𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚝:𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘦

Confusions.
When sweet, sheltered Dylan is sent to a Texas ranch for the summer, she expects quiet mornings, sunbathing naps, and long days with animals she fears more than boys. But what she doesn't expect is Knox-the angry, sharp-edged son of her family's hosts, whose silence burns hotter than the sun and whose gaze sees everything, too much.

Knox never planned to care. She was just a guest. Just a girl.

Until her softness started unraveling something in him.

Until desperation made him cross a line he swore he wouldn't.

As debts threaten to break his family and a so-called "friend" dangles salvation in the form of betrayal, Knox is forced to choose between protecting Dylan's innocence and saving the only life he's ever known. But Dylan, too, is learning-about love, about touch, about what it means when someone wants something from you they won't name out loud.

Tender. Twisted. And impossible to look away from-The Softest Lie is a slow-burn rural romance about first love, power, and the cost of growing up when the people around you are already broken.