She thought she had found love again. Instead, she opened the door to a nightmare.

At fifty, widow Isabelle Parker is lonely, grieving, and quietly disappearing inside the empty rooms of her Silver Ridge home. Her children have moved on with lives of their own, and her best friend, Julie, is determined Isabelle shouldn’t spend the rest of hers alone.

When Isabelle steps into the world of online dating, she meets James, a kind local man who makes her feel steady again. Then David Lawson appears—charming, attentive, poetic, and impossibly understanding. He sees her grief. He praises her photography. He makes her feel desired, alive, and chosen in a way she hasn’t felt in years.

But some men don’t love.

They study.

As David draws Isabelle into a private world of intimate messages, promises, and dreams of a future, the romance she believes is saving her begins to tighten into something far darker. By the time Isabelle realizes she may have trusted the wrong man, the danger is no longer only online.

It has found her home.

Lured by Lies is a clean romantic suspense thriller about loneliness, betrayal, emotional manipulation, and the terrifying cost of trusting the wrong person.