The Almost Truth by Eileen Cook
Sadie canâÈçt wait to get away from her backwards small town, her delusional mom, her jailbird dad, and the tiny trailer where she was raisedâÈöeven though leaving those things behind also means leaving her best friend Brendan. Sadie wants a better life, and she has been working steadily toward it, one con at a time. But when SadieâÈçs mother wipes out SadieâÈçs savings, her escape plan is suddenly gone. She needs to come up with a lot of cashâÈ'and fastâÈ'or sheâÈçll be stuck in this town forever. With BrendanâÈçs help, she devises a planâÈ'the ultimate conâÈ'to get the money. But the more lies Sadie spins, the more she starts falling for her own hoaxâÈöand perhaps for the wrong boy. Sadie wanted to change her life, but she wasn't prepared to have it flipped upside down by her own deception. With her future at stake and her heart on the line, suddenly it seems like she has a lot more than just money to lose...
When a teenaged con artist realizes that she looks like an age-enhanced photo of a missing child, she decides to pull the ultimate conNuntil she begins to suspect she may actually be the missing child.
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