Little White Lies
Authors: Katie Dale
Someone Else’s Life
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2013 by Katie Dale
Cover art © 2014 Nikki Smith/Arcangel Images
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York. Originally published in paperback by Simon and Schuster UK Ltd., a CBS Company, London, in 2013.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dale, Katie.
Little white lies / Katie Dale.—First U.S. edition.
pages cm
“Originally published in paperback by Simon and Schuster UK Ltd., a CBS Company, London, in 2013”—Copyright page.
Summary: “The first time Lou meets mysterious Christian, she knows he is The One. But when Christian’s secret is unveiled in front of the whole world, it seems everything he’s ever told Lou is a lie, and Lou finds herself ensnared in a web of deceit”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-385-74067-8 (hc)—ISBN 978-0-375-89973-7 (ebook) [1. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. 2. Secrets—Fiction. 3. Deception—Fiction. 4. Family problems—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D15244Li 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2013015479
eBook ISBN 9780375899737
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Dedicated to Chris, and our own wonderful chance encounter at Sheffield University
Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
—Sir Walter Scott