Before Your Lies Destroy Us

Seven years of marriage. Four years of secrets.

Mira Falkner has always believed she married the one honest thing in her life: steady, dependable Jonas, a craftsman with careful hands and an easy smile, in a town small enough that everyone thinks they already know everyone else's story.

Then a locked drawer in his workshop. A cash withdrawal she can't explain. A phone call that ends the moment she walks into the room.

As the first frost settles over Steinbrück, Mira starts pulling at threads she never let herself see before: her husband's dead brother, an antiques dealer with too much charm and not enough answers, and a secret that has been quietly bleeding their marriage dry for four years. The more she uncovers, the less certain she is that the man she loves is the man she married, and the less certain she is that either of them will survive finding out the truth.

Before the lies destroy everything they've built, Mira has to decide how much of the truth she can actually carry, and whether love without honesty was ever really love at all.

A slow-burn, high-angst romantic thriller about marriage, grief, and the lies we tell out of love.