{"product_id":"i-knew-he-was-lying-sadie-cross-9798235938946","title":"I Knew He Was Lying","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe satisfies every lie within three dates. She stays anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonroe Fitch is a data analyst who sees patterns the way other people see colors - automatically, compulsively, without mercy. Raised by an undiagnosed bipolar mother whose moods she learned to predict before she could read, Monroe built her entire life on one principle: if you can see the mechanism, you can survive it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen she meets Wes Chandler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharming. Attentive. Sun-weathered and deliberate. A man whose slow-building smile feels less like warmth and more like a controlled detonation. Monroe spots the first lie before dessert. By their third date, she's identified three behavioral inconsistencies, a suspiciously thin digital footprint, and a head tilt that appears every time he fabricates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAny rational woman would leave. Monroe opens a spreadsheet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe calls it Project Atlas. Entry by entry, date by date, she documents Wes's deceptions with the clinical precision of a quarterly report - the phone always face-down, the rehearsed backstory with shifting details, the way his tenderness is always preceded by a half-second of stillness, as though kindness is a decision he makes rather than a feeling he has.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e847 entries. Nine months. A complete map of a man built from lies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the dossier becomes something Monroe didn't plan for: a mirror. The deeper she catalogs his manipulation, the more she discovers that her obsessive surveillance has become its own trap - a way to stay inside a dangerous relationship while telling herself she's in control. Her clinical language begins to crack. The scientist becomes the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause Wes isn't just lying to Monroe. He's studying her too. And when she discovers the file on his laptop - a dossier with her name on it, with entries that predate their first meeting - the game she thought she was playing reveals itself as something far more sophisticated, far more intimate, and far more devastating than she imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Knew He Was Lying is a dark, cerebral psychological thriller about the lies we tell ourselves to justify staying, the difference between seeing a trap and escaping it, and a woman who documented her own undoing in the precise, controlled voice of someone who believed understanding danger was the same as being protected from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sadie Cross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235938946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sadie Cross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Sadie Cross","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874693034239,"sku":"9798235938946","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-knew-he-was-lying-sadie-cross-9798235938946","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}