Telling Tales — Kristy Tate

Candace thinks Mara is critical and obstinate. Mara thinks Candace is sanctimonious and controlling. They're both right.  Candace is a little too perfect. She'd admit it on a good day, but this isn't a good day. Someone has left an unsettling picture of her son on her windshield. On the back were scrawled the words, Do you know where your child is? Mara's day isn't going any better. She's buried herself in a go-nowhere job so she doesn't have to face her past. But when she gets to work that morning, she discovers her boss is thinking about selling the business.  When Zoe, a girl from the other side of the highway, invades their lives, things head downhill fast. Zoe's claims and accusations have the power to rattle both Candace's and Mara's carefully constructed cages. Can they cooperate long enough to uncover the facts?  Telling Tales is a sometimes funny, sometimes poignant story of two women's struggle with truth, lies, and each other.