The Greatest Lie of All

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by Jillian Cantor

Publication date: December 3, 2024
Publisher: Park Row
Paperback: 320 Pages

Publisher Description

A glamorous romance novelist and an aspiring starlet share an unexpected secret in this addictive story about love, ambition and how far we’re willing to go to protect our hearts.

Fledgling actress Amelia Grant is at rock bottom when offered the opportunity of a lifetime: to star in a biopic about the world-renowned romance author Gloria Diamond, who used her own tragic love story as inspiration for her bestselling books. To prepare for the role, she’ll spend a week with Gloria at her secluded Washington estate. It’s a chance to get out of LA, away from her cheating ex-boyfriend, and to make her recently deceased mother proud.

Amelia’s excitement is short-lived, however, once she actually meets Gloria, who is cold, verging on rude and mostly unavailable. If not for Gloria’s frustratingly handsome son Will, the visit might be a complete waste of her time. But when Amelia stumbles upon a secret from Gloria’s past, she realizes Gloria’s life story is more fiction than fact. And as the movie’s filming date draws nearer, Amelia must decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice to uncover the truth.

About the author

Jillian Cantor is the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of 13 novels for teens and adults, which have been chosen for Indie Next, Library Reads, Amazon Best of the Month, and have been translated into 15 languages.

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Praise

The Greatest Lie of All is irresistibly juicy, twisty, and layered. It explores the stories we tell about ourselves to conceal our truths and the lengths we’ll go to protect our hearts. Fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid will love this one.” –Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script and Same Time, Next Summer

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“In Cantor’s page-turning and deeply felt novel, two women come together to uncover the explosive secrets of their past. The Greatest Lie of All is a stunning story about the cost of becoming the person you are meant to be while discovering the truth of who you were. Pages fly by as the storylines tangle, as love is revealed, and we discover that it’s not just endings and beginnings that matter, but also the middle parts of our lives where choices are made. Cantor has penned a witty and mesmerizing novel with suspense and intrigue, and then the most important thing of all—heart.” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea

“Prepare to be pulled into an addictively twisty maze of secrets and lies, heartbreak and love as up-and-coming actress Amelia Grant comes face-to-face with bestselling novelist Gloria Diamond in preparation for her role in a biopic about Gloria’s long ago, once-in-a-lifetime romance. But nothing is quite what it seems, and explosive truth after explosive truth is expertly revealed by Cantor as Amelia tries to separate fact from fiction in Gloria’s life. Once you open the covers, you’ll need to forget everything else in your life because you won’t be able to put down this compulsive story until you reach its startling end.” –Natasha Lester, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Orphan

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