Books like Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
When 18‑year‑old Sawyer Taft, an auto mechanic with a strained relationship to her grandmother, receives a six‑figure invitation to participate in debutante season, she assumes a calculated entry into Southern high society. The promise of a new life and the chance to learn her father’s identity draw her into a glittering world of make‑overs, big dresses, and big personalities. But as Sawyer navigates the tangled relationships of her new friends and powerful parents—while uncovering scandalous, dangerous secrets—she learns that the family she has always longed for may be a little more complex than she thought. In the process she discovers that the truth about her origins might also hold the key to her place in the genteel world her grandmother keeps hidden behind a tidy façade.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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