When Will The Lies End? (Fool Me Once series Book 7)

The Underworld gods have retreated, but victory in the astral war came at a bitter cost. For Clara Presley and John Carrington, the future battle lies within the quiet fragility of their mortal lives.

Twenty-six years of stolen moments bring them peace, but fate does not forgive unpaid debts. When Carrington departs to fulfill his cosmic sentence, Clara is left to endure the agonizing silence of a world without the brilliant strategist who held her mind together.

Carrington, however, never leaves anything to chance.

From beyond the veil, he sets an intricate scavenger hunt into motion, engineered to force Clara into her true power. To complete her ascent, she must walk a path she had not anticipated, including building a life with Mark Kennedy, the man whose loyalty saved her from herself time and again.

But though the gods may be out of sight, they are not gone. Hades’s relentless obsession with protecting Persephone has triggered a devastating consequence: seven penalty lifetimes that threaten to trap Clara and Carrington in a cycle of reincarnation.

As the years slip by and echoes of past lives bleed through her reality, Clara faces an impossible choice: will she embrace the fierce autonomy she sought to wield, or surrender to eternity in the Underworld with her king?

Author’s Note to Readers:

WHEN WILL THE LIES END? is the final installment of a seven-book saga—a modern-day gothic psychological reimagining of the Hades and Persephone myth. This book features an obsessive British tycoon, an unreliable narrator struggling with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and a forced marriage that spirals into a high-stakes psychological thriller. Told in first-person POV, the series explores the thin line between love and control. For fans of genre-blended romantic suspense, psychological realism, dark literary fiction, dark romance, and paranormal romance featuring a Victorian/Gothic antihero in a contemporary setting. Reader discretion is advised.