Wicked Lies Boys Tell

Wicked Lies Boys Tell follows Penn McAlister and Cope Justice, childhood best friends and neighbors since they were toddlers, whose bond is shattered the moment sixteen-year-old Penn steals a kiss from Cope. What was easy and unspoken between them turns into years of distance, resentment, and half-truths.

Told in dual perspectives, the novel tracks Penn, the smart, popular football star everyone expects a certain kind of life from, and Cope, the tattooed, black-clad boy who's spent years building walls around what actually happened between them. Forced back into each other's orbit, both have to reckon with a truth they've been lying to themselves about for a long time: "I'm in love with my best friend. Lie. I'm in love with my enemy. Truth. But they're the same."

A steamy, emotionally intense M/M coming-of-age romance about friendship, identity, and the cost of pretending not to feel what you feel.