Overview
THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN A LIE?
THE TRUTH WITH TEETH.
Sixteen-year-old Luella is trapped in an isolated lighthouse with only her cruel father for company—he turns off the beacon for every twenty-fifth ship that passes, then makes her dive for riches in the resulting wreckage.
Luella desperately longs for friends and freedom, so when she spots a newspaper ad for The Society for the Protection of Faeries, she grasps for the opportunity to escape. She writes in, claiming selkies live on the island to entice the group to come . . . and to her surprise, they do.
To back the lie, Luella fakes faerie magic, convincing the Society that the seals on her island are actually selkies, and they induct her as a member. She takes quickly to a world of traveling in carriages, garden parties, and friends her own age, but Luella can never come clean about her deception if she wants to keep her new life. Soon she realizes she is not the only liar. There’s an imposter among them, someone who possesses real magic and sabotages her friends’ discoveries—and without evidence, they will soon run out of funding. The imposter knows Luella’s lying too, and if she dares to unmask them, they’ll ruin her new life with the Society for good.
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