Lies That Bind

For six years, Antoni has lived with resentment that kept building, tangled up with falsehoods that gradually began to feel like the truth. With only a few months left before his eighteenth birthday, he is close to escaping the oversight of Child Protective Services and closing the book on high school. His plans are in place, and the future he has mapped out looks secure.

Kyrah arrives and throws those plans off course. What starts as a favor, a handful of pretend dates that are supposed to mean nothing, slowly pulls apart the deceptions that have kept Antoni tied down. Every day they spend together loosens another knot.