{"product_id":"blank-canvas-grace-murray","title":"Blank Canvas - Grace Murray","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf I ever woke up with an ungodly dread — that I could change it all now, turn around, and confess — I ignored it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI had never been good, and there was no point in trying now. On a small liberal arts campus in upstate New York, Charlotte begins her final year with a lie. Her father died over the summer, she says.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeart attack. Very sudden. Charlotte had never been close with her classmates but as she repeats her tale, their expressions soften into kindness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so she learns there are things worth lying for: attention, affection, and, as she embarks on a relationship with fellow student Katarina, even love. All she needs to do is keep control of the threads that hold her lie – and her life – together. 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