Helen Callaghan - Everything Is Lies

Everything Is Lies is a psychological thriller by Helen Callaghan that follows Sophia as she uncovers her family's dark secrets. After returning home, she discovers her mother has died by hanging and her father is critically injured in what police believe to be a murder-suicide. Certain her unassuming mother was not a killer, Sophia begins investigating and finds a set of notebooks her mother, Nina, had been writing. The notebooks reveal Nina's secret past, detailing her experiences in a charismatic, yet manipulative, cult called the "Order of the Ascendents". The story unfolds in two timelines, alternating between Sophia's present-day investigation and her mother's memoirs. As Sophia reads her mother's sinister account, she realizes her entire life has been built on lies. The more she uncovers, the more she is plunged into a dangerous world of deceit and manipulation that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about her family.