Secrets Are Lies

To anyone watching, Drayton Michaels, Ritz Carlton and Jules Warner are
a perfect example of sisterhood and family. They share big things easily: PIN codes, spare keys, and secret hiding places of emergency cash. Rarely
do they share or acknowledge that there are things that keep them awake, walk
in circles til dawn, and cry out Jesus in the middle of the night. Regardless of
how well they think they know each other, they dont know each others secrets.
SECRETS ARE LIESchronicles the lives of Drayton, Ritz and Jules over the
course of one year. The book is an unfolding series of life-changing events
that threaten to undermine the friendship of three accomplished women.
TheirSECRETS ARE LIES peppered with deceit and lead each of them on a roller
coaster ride through a river of disappointment, heartache, and broken promises.


Jules survives infidelity only to lose the love of her life. Similarly, doctors
diagnoses pull a loose thread from the carefully stitched lives of Ritz and
Drayton. Their worlds unravel as each sit on the brink of losing whats important.
They unsuccessfully attempt to take it all in stride knowing most or all of what
theyve done cannot be undone. There are things about Jules her friends will
never know that she does or has done. There are places Ritz can never go again
or admit that shes ever been. There are things big and small that Drayton believes
will forever remain secret.


Initially, they appear to be from three different worlds with different sets of
problems, but they are just like everyone else who is just trying to get through
life. They eventually realize that SECRETS ARE LIESand find strength in a true
sisterhood that helps them believe that the way of behaving normally is behaving as
if everything matters.