What if I Lied to You? - Fool Me Once, #4

Clara Presley has become the Underworld's most meticulous architect of the perfect lie. As a high-ranking tactician within a ruthless Irish dynasty, she's realized the most dangerous game isn't played with guns—it's played with secrets. And no secret is greater than the one her husband, the passionately controlling John Carrington, is hiding.

When Carrington allows a masked nemesis to launch a global scavenger hunt, it sets up a chess match of deep-seated greed, with the board spread across continents and the stakes measured in blood. But beneath the surface of Carrington's puppeteering lies a fatal trap, and a truth so devastating it could shatter their Underworld forever.

Then, the lights go out.

Clara wakes into a foreign, fractured reality. Her memory is a mosaic of broken glass, leaving her stranded with a husband she no longer recognizes—a man whose eloquent words and manipulative care feel like a beautiful gilded cage. With her mind compromised by amnesia, she must rely on the one person she once sought to outmaneuver.

As the masked hunter closes in and the scavenger hunt draws to a close, Clara must decode fragments of her past to save the man she loves. But in a world where knowledge is a death sentence, the most dangerous secret might be the one she's already forgotten.

Author's note to readers:

WHAT IF I LIED TO YOU? is the fourth installment of a seven-book saga—a modern-day gothic psychological reimagining of the Hades and Persephone myth. This book features an obsessive British tycoon, an unreliable narrator struggling with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and a forced marriage that spirals into a high-stakes psychological thriller. Told in first-person POV, the series explores the thin line between love and control. For fans of genre-blended romantic suspense, psychological realism, dark literary fiction, and dark romance featuring a Victorian/Gothic antihero in a contemporary setting. Reader discretion is advised.