Annabelle Parker, Milo Roberts and Garrett McCarthy are best friends and have been since college. When Milo dies, Anna and Garrett are left with questions about the circumstances of his death. When secrets and lies start coming to light, Annabelle and Garrett have to connect the dots to discover the truths that have been hiding around them for years. 
 A Beautiful Lie started a little slow for me. There are a lot of secrets and mysterious coincidences in the beginning that needed to be dropped and hinted at, but for a while it felt a little bit disjointed. But once things started heating up in the Domincan and the lies started being revealed, I was hooked. That first third or so though, I spent thinking this one was missing something. But the last 2/3 blew me away. The twists and turns brought an edge of the seat ride that I didn't want to get off of. Some of the twists I saw coming, some didn't play out how I thought but were exciting and action packed regardless. In fact, I sat down to read for an hour at about the 45% mark, and ended up reading all the way to the end. By the time I finished, this was a book that I didn't want to put down, and one that has me wanting to continue reading.