For Milt and Joyce
and for Tony, always.
Since quantum physics allows for multiple possibilities simultaneously, these possibilities should then keep existing, even after a measurement is made. But they don’t. Every possibility but one vanishes. We do not see any of the others around us.
—Christophe Galfard, The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
Contents
1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Dedication
4. Epigraph
5. Contents
6. 1
7. 2
8. 3
9. 4
10. 5
11. 6
12. 7
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82. 77
83. 78
84. 79
85. Author Note
87. Acknowledgments
88. About the Author
89. Advance Praise for State of Lies
90. Other Books by Siri Mitchell
91. Copyright
February
Sean was already pulling his shirt off over his head as he came into the bedroom.
I held up a corner of the comforter as an invitation. But not too far. The damp of a drizzly week had seeped into the house.
He stepped out of his jeans and then slid in beside me.
I nestled against him. Felt him cringe as my cold feet brushed up against him.
“Sorry.”
He pulled me into his embrace. “One of these days they’re going to fall off.” He nuzzled my neck.
I wrapped my arms around him. “They already did. These are the replacements.”
I felt his lips curl into a smile as he kissed me again.
Sean was doing that thing he does—the one that made my toes curl—when my phone twanged out the beginning notes of “Sweet Home Alabama.”
My mother.
I gripped his shoulder and tried my best to ignore the phone because married sex was my personal holy grail. Always elusively tantalizing, just out of reach. I’d even put it on Sean’s weekend to-do list, just after “sharpen the knives” and right before “fix the sink.” It was okay because our son, Sam, was still in preschool; he didn’t know how to read. That afternoon, however, our window of opportunity was about to come sliding down right on top of our fingers. Sam was down for the count due to a cold, though I expected him to wake up soon.
But the phone kept ringing.
The drums started thumping and the cymbals clashed.
I must have wavered because Sean folded me within his arms. “Georgie. Don’t.” He nibbled at my neck. “If you want me to, I’ll throw the phone across the room for you.”
“No! Shh. You’ll wake up Sam—”
He rolled, switching our positions, leaving me on top.
“—and he needs the sleep to get over that cold he’s been fighting.”
When I put a hand to his chest and stretched for the phone, he captured my reaching arm and planted a kiss on the inside of my ...
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About State of LiesSomeone wants Georgie Brennan dead. And the more she digs for the truth, the fewer people she can trust. Months after her husband, Sean, is killed by a hit-and-run driver, physicist Georgie Brennan discovers he lied to her about where he had been going that day. A cryptic notebook, a missing computer, and strange noises under her house soon have her questioning everything she thought she knew. With her job hanging by a thread, her son struggling to cope with his father’s death, and her four-star general father up for confirmation as the next secretary of defense, Georgie quickly finds herself tangled in a web of political intrigue that has no clear agenda and dozens of likely villains. Only one thing is clear: someone wants her dead too. And the people closest to her might be the most dangerous of all. Praise for State of Lies: “A voice you’ll want to curl up with, and a plot that won’t let you sleep.” —Tim Tigner, international bestselling author of Twist and Turn “Don’t miss this thrilling ride.” —Kelly Irvin, author of Over the Line “Siri Mitchell has created a story that will suck you in and not let go. With twists and turns, international intrigue, and danger galore, this book reads like a psychological thriller mixed with healthy doses of suspense.” —Cara Putman, author of the Hidden Justice series |
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