I’m terrified of this age of misinformation we’re trapped in, the persistent online attacks on facts and settled science. For me, it’s deeply disturbing to see these lies snake their way into daily conversation, causing rifts among people I love. I’ve watched friends hold onto a lie in the face of contrary evidence because they like the lie, because it benefits them; then they believe the lie. But that’s when it becomes a delusion.

My fear of this constant manipulation of the truth was the driving force behind my new psychological thriller . I thought I was qualified to write about the delusions that persist among friends. I’d been a journalist in Washington, D.C. and heard my share of probably every kind of lie and imagined I understood the psychology behind them. Then a family tragedy

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