The Truth In Lies Series. READ This Much Is True, book 1 first, although it’s been written as a standalone. Readers say, don’t do that.
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway ~ A Farewell To Arms
They share an epic love but one moment changes everything. A life together that seemed certain is shattered. One learns you never love the same way twice; the other learns what it means to come home. You only think you know how this love story goes, but do you really know how an epic love can end?
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
She is living color, and I’ve been in a black-and-white world for far too long without her.
Powerful stuff. It surrounds me. I’ve felt it since I first arrived. The forcefield of her. The magnetism of her. The power she wields over me. I’m alive again because of her, like a dying plant that finally gets some water. I’ve got it bad for this girl.
Reality dawns.
The light comes through the darkness and shines on me.
She’s my water.
-Lincoln Presley
The truth is I breathe with him. He is my air. Raison d’etre.
-Tally Landon
Author’s note: This novel is part of the Truth In Lies series. It can be read as standalone, however, fans of my fiction already are highly recommending that those new to my work, READ This Much Is True book 1 FIRST.
As Lincoln Presley would say, “do as you must, Princess.”
I love the synopsis of both books, and i def goona read both. I love some angst in books and i’m sure i’m going to love them. Now, for the guest post, i’d love to hear why did you chose writing about a relationship that started in lies and then make it an epic love? Where do you find your motivation to create this store? And since I love this quote from the synopsis ““There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald” i’d like to know why you chose it to this book?. Thank you!
The heroine, Tally Landon, tells lies as part of her mechanism of coping with loss. The first book in this series, This Much Is True, shows the history of these two and starts out with these two meeting under the most tragic circumstances. As the story evolves, readers gain more insight into why Tally lies. There are reasons. Good or bad. These reasons exist. And yet, as the story goes along both in book 1 This Much Is True and continuing in book 2 with The Truth About Air & Water, Tally’s learns that her past lies can still hurt her even when she aspires to tell the truth. It’s a strange twist of fate. I realize I haven’t really addressed this specifically, but I want to preserve the surprises in these two novels for readers.
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
As far as this quote being included to open the book, that serves as a marker for readers and a double entendre in what transpires in this second story with these two. Linc and Tally are finally together but fate has a way of keeping them apart in The Truth About Air & Water in the most unexpected way. This quote epitomizes their epic love in having to start over and how it leads them in a different direction.
My latest novel is The Truth About Air & Water which is a follow-on storyline to my first new adult book, This Much Is True (released last year August 2013). This is a continuation of the two characters, Tally Landon and Lincoln Presley, from that first bestselling book. I wrote it as a standalone but most fans of my work insist new readers read This Much Is True FIRST. Here’s the blurb for The Truth About Air & Water, book 2 in the Truth In Lies series. They share an epic love, but one moment changes everything. A life together that seemed certain is shattered.
One learns you never love the same way twice; the other learns what it means to come home.
You only think you know how this love story goes, but do you really know how an epic love can end? She is living color, and I’ve been in a black-and-white world for far too long without her. Powerful stuff. It surrounds me. I’ve felt it since I first arrived. The forcefield of her. The magnetism of her. The power she wields over me. I’m alive again because of her, like a dying plant that finally gets some water. I’ve got it bad for this girl. Reality dawns. The light comes through the darkness and shines on me. She’s my water. -Lincoln Presley The truth is I breathe with him. He is my air. Raison d’etre. -Tally Landon
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Katherine Owen writes contemporary edgy fiction, which translates to: she writes love stories that are contemporary in setting and both edgy and dark. Some readers term her books emotional roller coasters. With her writing, Owen admits she has a fondness for angst, likes to play with a little drama, and essentially toys around with the unintentional complications of love. She contends this began early on when she won a poetry contest at the age of fourteen and appears to be without end. Owen has an avid love of coffee, books, and writing, but not necessarily in that order. She writes both Contemporary Romance and New Adult fiction which includes her bestselling TRUTH IN LIES Series (a series despite despising ‘series’) beginning with This Much Is True and her latest release, The Truth About Air & Water. The TRUTH IN LIES series is fan-driven. So. There will be a third book about Linc and Tally released in 2015 titled Tell Me Something True.
About Owen’s fiction…This is NOT the light trope stuff. She travels a unique, writerly path and enjoys writing dark and angsty (a “non-word” she is fond of) emotional love stories. She often warns readers to be prepared with: time, tissues, wine, Advil or your drug of choice. And, as her most favored character, Lincoln Presley, would say, “do what you must, Princess.”
Thanks for featuring my book, The Truth About Air & Water, on your blog. Best, Katherine Owen