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A Beautiful Lie

by Tanya Grant

A summer invitation with a troubling edge

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A summer invitation with a troubling edge

Emily makes her living organizing other people’s homes, sorting what they keep from what they let go. Her own difficulty with letting go takes shape around Cap, a wealthy client whose invitation to a summer home becomes the setting for an increasingly unsettling fixation. The description links domestic order and personal attachment, turning the language of decluttering into part of a psychological thriller’s tension. Emily’s first-person account also frames her work as a way of seeing into clients’ lives, while raising questions about where professional attention ends and possessiveness begins.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy psychological thrillers built around fixation and uneasy relationships.
  • Those interested in stories that use domestic spaces and home organizing as part of their suspense.

Themes

Attachment and letting goPossessivenessOrder and clutterBoundaries in client relationships

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Book overview

In this juicy psychological thriller, home organizer Emily is invited to vacation at her beautiful and wealthy new client's summer home--but once inside, Emily doesn't want to leave.

Every one of my home organizing clients is a fabulous liar.

They tell themselves they need to keep clutter in their lives for rainy days or just-in-cases. They hold onto things too tightly. Most people don't know how to cut to the heart of what's important and purge everything that's not.

That's where I come in. I can look into my client's lives and see exactly what's weighing them down, and I get rid of it for them.

It sounds easy, but I'll let you in on a secret: I have trouble letting go of things, too.

When Cap slides into my life with her neon signs and velvet hair bows and magnetic energy, I know I can't just let her walk away. Because one of the first rules of home organizing is that like belongs with like. And Cap and me? We're destined to be together.

She may not know it yet, but that's okay. I'd be lying if I didn't say the challenge is part of the thrill. And luckily for Cap, I'm not afraid of a little hard work.
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