Sophie Stava

Count My Lies Sophie Stava

I'm in your house. I'm your friend. You can trust me.

A voice-driven, read-in-one-night suspense thriller coming to you in 2025. 'Utterly intriguing, the pages turned themselves. Count My Lies goes beyond the bad nanny trope and moves to much more interesting and sinister territory.

Absorbing.' LIZ NUGENT‘This smart, original, twisty story had me gripped from the first to the last page. I just had to keep reading!’ LIANE MORIARTY‘Utterly gripping and unputdownable' AMY TINTERA_________Sloane Caraway is a liar. They are harmless lies, she tells herself, to make her own life a bit more interesting.

So when she sees a child in tears in a playground one afternoon, she tells the girl’s (very attractive) dad she’s a nurse and helps him pull a bee sting from his daughter’s foot. With this lie and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for Jay and Violet Lockhart who have everything: a beautiful brownstone house, a daughter in private nursery school, and long summers on an idyllic island just off the coast of New York. Sloane wants to be just like them.

She wants their life and she’s prepared to lie about almosteverything to get it. But Sloane isn’t the only one lying, and soon she begins to realise that all that’s picture-perfect about her employers hides a much more dangerous truth . .

. _________Praise for Count My Lies‘Readers will find themselves racing through the final, jaw-dropping pages, desperate to gather every last clue of this astonishing web of lies’ Katy Hays‘Get ready for a rollercoaster of twists’ Liv Constantine'Sophie Stava masterfully weaves suspense, deception, and heart into a brilliant, twisty thriller that keeps you guessing until the very last page.' Trisha SahklechaReaders are loving Count My Lies:'So addictive''Jaw dropping''Thrilling''I couldn't put it down''Twisty, and absorbing novel''Just when you think the big twist has happened, there’s another, and another, and another!'