Letters, Lace, and Lies

Name: Letters, Lace, and Lies
Author: Heather Long

169 pages

They say every school has that girl—the one everyone watches but no one really sees. For us, that’s Frankie.
Except I’ve always seen her. Seen and wanted.

Smart, untouchable, already writing her next chapter while the rest of us are stuck flipping the same worn-out page.
I’ve been in love with her since forever. Not the safe kind. Not the kind you outgrow. The kind that digs in deep and doesn’t let go. The kind that keeps you up at night, wondering exactly what you’d have to break—or become—to make her yours.
And I’ve run the numbers. All of them.
The problem? I’m not the only one. Bubba. Coop. Jake.
One wants to protect her. One’s been hiding his feelings for years. And one already made the kind of mistake you don’t come back from. Then there’s the new boyfriend. The golden boy. Too late.
I don’t scare easy. And I don’t back down.
My world is money, manipulation, and magazine-cover lies. My parents are locked in a cold war disguised as a marriage, and my father’s latest power play? Sleeping with Frankie’s mom.
So yeah—I know what betrayal looks like.
But Frankie… she’s the only thing that ever felt real.
This version of the story? It wasn’t supposed to go like this. She was supposed to choose me. Even if she didn’t know it yet. Even if she still doesn’t.
The rules have changed. The competition’s crowded. But my aim hasn’t shifted an inch.
I want Frankie.
And there’s nothing I won’t do to have her.
Letters, Lace, and Lies is Book Two in this bold What If series—where love doesn’t follow the rules, secrets refuse to stay buried, and the past demands a reckoning. Because sometimes the biggest scandal isn’t who you love…
…it’s who you might be related to.
When secrets surface and timelines unravel, loyalty fractures, desire intensifies, and the truth threatens to destroy everything.
What’s worse than losing your best friends? Falling for them.