Kiss Me Through the Lie: a Dark Romantic Suspense Novel of Dangerous Secrets, Forbidden Trust, and Morally Gray Heir

**The recording is real.The voice is real.The confession is a lie.**Audio researcher Wren Calloway knows better than anyone that a recording can tell the truth and still destroy an innocent person.So when she receives an authenticated recording of powerful Mercer heir Rowan Mercer's father appearing to admit that private testimony can override official records, she takes it straight to the one man capable of proving what the technology actually says.There's only one problem.Wren lies about where she got it.Rowan catches her almost immediately.Controlled, brilliant, and dangerously difficult to deceive, Rowan has spent his life separating what evidence proves from what people desperately want it to mean. The voice appears authentic. The digital signature validates.But the system that created that signature was supposed to have been dead for years.And someone is using it again.Soon, Rowan and Wren uncover a disturbing pattern: genuine recordings stripped of the questions that gave the answers meaning. Real voices. Real words. Missing context.Someone doesn't need to manufacture lies.They only need to make the truth sound guilty.As the attacks move closer to Wren, working beside Rowan becomes unavoidable.So does wanting him.Their attraction grows around the one secret Wren refuses to surrender - the identity of the source who trusted her with the recording. Rowan knows she is hiding something. Wren knows he could probably discover it if he chose to.She makes the boundary unmistakable.Her source is not his to uncover.Rowan agrees.And for a while, that is enough.Enough for professional rivalry to become trust.Enough for trust to become desire.Enough for Wren to discover that the most dangerous thing about Rowan Mercer isn't how much he can learn.It's how safe she feels when he chooses not to.But when the threat closes in and Rowan becomes convinced someone Wren is protecting may be in danger, fear gives him the perfect justification to cross the one line he promised he wouldn't.Now their investigation is exposing a modern conspiracy built on authentic evidence and false conclusions.An old Mercer system is pointing toward a twenty-year-old Saintless secret.And Wren must decide whether a man who broke her trust to protect someone can ever become the man she trusts with her own.Rowan, meanwhile, must learn the hardest lesson of his life: Being able to discover the truth does not mean you have the right to know it.Kiss Me Through the Lie is Book Six in The Saintless Society, an interconnected dark romantic suspense series featuring a morally gray heir, a fiercely intelligent heroine, forced proximity, professional rivals-to-lovers tension, dangerous secrets, protected identities, betrayal, open-door romance, powerful families, and a hard-won happily-ever-after.Ten families. Ten seats. One rule: never choose love.