Beneath the Lie — Virginia Hart

Suzanna Caulder is about to graduate from college, and she's just been invited to qualify for the professional ladies golf tour -- life seems to be moving in the right direction.

But when she is also invited to the engagement party of Patrick, her high school sweetheart, back home, she realizes that four years isn't long enough to heal her broken heart or her haunted past.

Having left home suddenly halfway through her senior year, Suzanna has maintained contact only with her friend Chloe, leaving the rest of the “fabulous five” and her dark secret behind -- or so she thought. Now, seeing that to move forward requires confronting the past, Suzanna returns to find closure with Patrick, only to find that their love is as strong as ever. But he doesn't know what drove her away the first time.

Should Suzanna try to let go of the past and allow herself to enjoy a successful life and a relationship with a future?

Beneath the Lie is the first book in a series that follows the stories of the fabulous five, a group of tight-knit friends -- Suzanna, Chloe, Patrick, James, and Landon -- as they begin to build their lives in the great state of South Carolina.