What Lies in the Woods

They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison. They were heroes . . . but they were liars.

Kate Alice Marshall's What Lies in the Woods is a thrilling novel about friendship, secrets, betrayal, & lies - and having the courage to face the past.

Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she & her two best friends, Cassidy & Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony & wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi was attacked. Miraculously, she survived her seventeen stab wounds & lived to identify the man who had hurt her.  The girls’ testimony put away a serial killer, wanted for murdering six women. They were heroes. And they were liars.

For decades, the friends have kept a secret worth killing for. But now Olivia wants to tell, & Naomi sets out to find out what really happened in the woods—no matter how dangerous the truth turns out to be.

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