So I Lied: A Thriller

by Chelsea Ichaso

Overview

In this foreboding journey into the depths of friendship, three women spend a trip together covering up the secrets between them—but when one lie unravels, there’s no going back.

Jocelyn is ready to get married—and more ready to have fun. She plans a bachelorette trip to North Wales, where she can forget about her strained relationship and focus on the tension among friends instead. It’s a welcome distraction.

Her friend Rowan used to be the wild child. But after having a kid of her own and losing the father in a tragic accident, she’s now the ever-responsible single mother, cautious in every way. Except one.

Cadence doesn’t want to be there. For as long as she’s known her friends, she’s always felt disparate. Maybe it’s because those two share a special bond: Jocelyn’s brother was Rowan’s boyfriend, and they still feel his loss. Or maybe it’s because Cadence has secrets they can never know.

As the trip goes on, their friendship begins to crack under the pressure of all the things they leave unsaid…but those might be the only things that can save them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662521690
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	01/28/2025
Pages:	300
Sales rank:	84,796
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Chelsea Ichaso writes twisty thrillers for young adults, including Dead Girls Can’t Tell Secrets, They’re Watching You, and The Summer She Went Missing. A former high school English teacher, Chelsea currently resides in Southern California with her husband and children. She likes to think she plays guitar and would succeed on a survival television show, though neither is actually true.

Editorial Reviews

Tightly plotted, suspenseful, and ruthless in its exploration of the dark side of love and friendship, Ichaso’s novel is a richly satisfying thriller. A twisty, unrelenting gem.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Ichaso packs a punch in her adult thriller debut. Deliciously atmospheric and truly compelling, this bachelorette party weekend sees three friends and their multitude of secrets deliver one twist after another. With its jaw dropping ending, this is thriller writing at its best.” —Paula Gleeson, author of Original Twin

“In her adult debut, Ichaso weaves a chilling tale of friendship and betrayal. Thriller fans will fly through the pages as the story barrels at breakneck speed towards its final shocking twist.” —MK Pagano, author of Girls Who Burn

From the Publisher

2024-10-26
Three young California women go on a bachelorette trip only to find themselves forced to confront the lies and secrets at the core of their friendship.

Cadence and Rowan are outwardly delighted to accept their friend Jocelyn’s invitation to join her on an all-expenses paid trip to the northwest coast of Wales. But in a story where the point-of-view shifts from woman to woman, the reader quickly learns that nothing is quite what it seems. Though she’s about to be married to the love of her life, beautiful, wealthy Jocelyn has been struggling for almost a decade to get her event-planning business off the ground. What Jocelyn doesn’t know is that her brilliant but plain friend Cadence, a middle school teacher, has been quietly having an on-again, off-again affair with her husband to be. Rowan, meanwhile, has felt like the perpetual third wheel ever since they all met in college. An aspiring artist forced to drop out and begin working due to an unplanned pregnancy, she regards her friends’ freedom with longing and envy, yet can’t break with them because of the long history they share, and the fact that Jocelyn’s dead twin, Jake, was the father of her child. When the women encounter a handsome but manipulative traveler and his attractive female companion at their bed and breakfast, the tension among them escalates and their friendship begins to unravel. One by one, secrets emerge about jealousies so intense they drove each woman to cruel and selfish acts of destruction, including murder. Tightly plotted, suspenseful, and ruthless in its exploration of the dark side of love and friendship, Ichaso’s novel is a richly satisfying thriller.

A twisty, unrelenting gem.

Kirkus Reviews