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Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright returns home to San Francisco to teach a bookbinding class. Unfortunately, the program director, Layla Fontaine, is a horrendous host who pitches fits and lords over her subordinates. But when Layla is found shot dead, Brooklyn is bound and determined to investigate - even as the killer tries to close the book on her for good.

In the aftermath of her father’s death and the crash that killed her mother and five-year-old sister, Jess is determined to take care of her surviving brothers, teenage Frankie and nine-year-old Tom. But as the three siblings struggle through grief, ever-present questions loom: Why did their dad take his own life? Where was their mother going?

This doubt gnaws at him until he seizes an opportunity to have their blood tested and his horrible fears confirmed. Furious, confused, and hurt, he lashes out at his ex-wife. She retaliates by refusing to let him see Sam, and by telling the boy that his beloved father is really no such thing. Peter sues for the return of years of generous child support payments. In the ensuing courtroom battle, he is forced to confront whether he can still be a father to a boy who has no biological or legal connection to him.

In the acclaimed Once Upon a Lie, Maggie Barbieri introduced Maeve Conlon, a single mother and bakery owner hiding dark secrets behind her cookie-cutter suburban life. Now, Maeve's moving on with everyday life when the unthinkable happens: her father dies of a massive heart attack. Maeve's mother died when Maeve was very young, and growing up, it was always just her and her father. But on the day of his funeral, Maeve learns a shocking secret.

In a world where aesthetics are old, but technology is modern, Edith Lima had a comfortable life in San Francisco, until she lost her high paying position. Now, she's barely able to pay her bills, let alone her student loans. Living paycheck to paycheck and exhausted, she vents online to a stranger. During the rant she jokingly brings up the idea of propositioning a sugar daddy. To Edith's surprise, the stranger wants to take her up on the offer. They meet and she discovers that her potential benefactor is Kazmir Kolomna – a relationship therapist. Kazmir is gorgeous, interesting, and ...

Jan needs this. She’s flying to Crete to reunite with friends she met there five years ago and relive an idyllic vacation. Basking in the warmth of the sun, the azure sea, and the aura of antiquity, she can once again pretend - for a little while - that she belongs. Her ex-boyfriend Marcus will be among them, but even he doesn’t know the secrets she keeps hidden behind a veil of lies. None of them really know her. Then again, how well does she know them? When Jan awakens in utter darkness, chained to a wall, she desperately tries to reconstruct what happened....

"The Lies That Bind Us" untangles the invisible scripts that shape our lives – those sneaky stories society tells us about who we are, what we're worth, and what's possible. Each episode pulls at a thread in our tightly-woven social fabric, examining how power weaves itself into our identities, relationships, and beliefs. With equal parts intellectual rigor and irreverent wit, we explore everything from religious dogma to economic myths, from gender norms to political fables. But we don't just expose these lies.

A call for truth and freedom in a culture saturated with false information and deceit, from the bestselling author of The Love Everybody Wants. “Madison Prewett Troutt’s vulnerability and boldness make you feel like you are sitting down with a big sister who loves you too much to let you...