Book cover for The Lying Game #5: Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard

The Lying Game #5: Cross My Heart, Hope to Die

2013 Released
336 Pages
4-5 Hours
Hardback Unavailable
HarperCollinsISBN 9780062128218

Cross My Heart, Hope to Die is the fifth title in the suspenseful and twisted Lying Game series by Sara Shepard, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling series Pretty Little Liars.

Ever since Sutton Mercer's murderer tricked her long-lost twin, Emma, into coming to Tucson, Emma has been trying to solve the mystery of Sutton's death. And now someone else is back in town—Becky, Sutton and Emma's birth mother. As Emma gets closer to discovering what exactly happened the night Sutton was killed, she learns that Becky isn't all that she seems. Turns out Sutton wasn't the only Mercer girl with dark secrets. . . .


  • Long-Lost Twin: Emma is living her dead sister Sutton’s life, sleeping in her bedroom and navigating her friendships, all while hunting for the killer who put her there.
  • Love Triangle: Caught between Ethan, the boy who knows her secret, and Thayer, the boyfriend she inherited, Emma must decide who she can trust with her heart—and her life.
  • Family Secrets: The return of their unstable birth mother, Becky, unearths secrets the Mercers fought to keep buried, revealing Sutton wasn't the only one with something to hide.
  • Twisty Secrets and Lies: From the author of Pretty Little Liars comes another tale packed with the shocking twists, dangerous pranks, and high-stakes drama that fans crave.

Sara Shepard

Sara Shepard is the author of two New York Times bestselling series, Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game, as well as the series The Perfectionists. She graduated from New York University and has an MFA from Brooklyn College.

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