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The Lie Kindle Edition

by Ashley Fontainne (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Soon to be the feature film FORESEEN
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GOLD MEDAL WINNER - FICTION
2013 ILLUMINATION BOOK AWARDS

"THE LIE by Ashley Fontainne is a thought-provoking novel that takes readers into the darkness, yet shares a deep, unforgettable story....the premise is excellent and definitely one that will attract readers looking for intrigue. I enjoyed the fact that the author writes from a Christian world view and is obviously familiar with and respectful of Christianity...All in all, a solid, original work. I think Ashley Fontainne is building an excellent career and will find many devoted fans." - Judge, 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.

"Ashley nails the struggles of good vs. evil, religious, political and individual flaws and weaknesses/strengths. The use of Scripture is amazing and her suck-you-in style captivates the reader with her vivid characters and their motivations." - Janelle Taylor, NY Times bestselling author of Necessary Evil

"Any...reader interested in intrigue, mystery, supernatural thrillers and a thread of spirituality linking all elements will find this an engrossing saga with unexpected turns and a very unpredictable conclusion." - D. Donovan, eBook reviewer, MidWest Book Reviews

Karmen Moncrille's name has been known throughout the world since the age of sixteen when her first book shot to the top of the bestseller's list. Now everything she writes is an instant hit, and her legions of devoted fans eagerly await her next release.

The mysterious Karmen always blamed debilitating panic attacks as the reason she avoided publicity and has become a recluse. Which is exactly what she wants the world to think. Only Karmen knows the truth behind her introverted nature. Terrified of being asked where her ideas come from, she fears being branded a raving lunatic.

Now just a week before her twenty-third birthday, Karmen’s world implodes. The madness that haunts her dreams spills over to her reality and she questions her sanity. Suddenly everything has changed and now the world will transform with her. Her last book will unleash the truth and alter mankind—forever.

Is Karmen's ability to write a gift or a curse? She's about to find out if her entire life is a lie. And why she was destined to write it.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00FUTP4KM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ RMSW Press
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 Jan. 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 561 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 151 pages
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Award-winning and International bestselling author Ashley Fontainne enjoys stories that immerse the reader deep into the human psyche and the monsters lurking within each of us. She writes in numerous genres including mystery, suspense, horror, sci-fi and sometimes poetry.

Ashley lives in Arkansas with her husband and is the proud mother of one son and grateful daughter of co-author, Lillian Hansen. To learn more about her books please visit https://ashleyfontainne.net/

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Monica o'sullivan
Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 November 2017
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From start to finish a brilliant novel with many twists and turn a real page Turner really enjoyed ever page

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sharon
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2014
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I have read a couple of Ashley's books before but this one has to be one of the best.(Along with Number Seventy Five).

This is the sort of book that keeps you turning pages 'keeps you gripped to the book/kindle. Your guessing all the time what you think is going to happen just doesn't.

It's a thriller that keeps you gripped.
I don't want to spoil it for other readers so I will basically give a rough outline of the story.

Karmen is a novelist who bases her stories on her dreams her problem is her dreams are about dead authors.
The problem is when she awakes in the morning her story is there before her all written in the style of the author she just dreamt about.

That's all I am saying about this fantastic book, because to say anymore would ruin a good storyline.
I just hope that there is a follow on to this as it was a shame to end how it did.

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BirdieTracy
Running From The Devil
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2014
This is the type of book that used to scare the <insert graphic word here> when I was a kid. I always felt more threatened by horror stories involving religion than any other type. Let's face it, to a churchgoing small town kid, vampires, werewolves, mummies, and even aliens were small potatoes when compared to the devil. In this book that would be devil with a capital D.

Karmen, a young author, flees to Martin, Kentucky after having a bit of a meltdown while being interviewed on television. She is a quiet person and was talked into doing the program by her mother and uncle. Unfortunately she doesn't know that the woods outside Martin are, quite literally, the devil's stomping ground.

Everything seems normal when Karmen and her best friend Emily arrive at the family cabin. Well, except for the visions, and the voices Karmen hears at the general store they stop at for supplies.

As her 23rd birthday approaches she and Emily are joined by Mitchell, a boyfriend she hasn't seen since his enlistment in the service, and Karmen's mother. It's going to turn out to be one heck of a birthday.

I enjoyed reading this book. It moves along at a quick pace and the author did a good job of building suspense block by block. Karmen is a likeable young woman overwhelmed by inexplicable events that seem to be directed solely at her.

This is a terrific story! And I have to admit that even after all these years this book made me a bit nervous.

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Heidi
gripping novel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2013
This book is such a gripping novel! It is something that is slightly out of my comfort zone (I couldn't read this book in the evenings but only during broad daylight - I am a bit of scaredy-cat though), but I am so glad I read this fantastic novel.

The storyline is spun perfectly and the whole atmosphere is electric. Although I was slightly confused by the first two opening chapters it all made perfect sense and fitted together like tiny little puzzle pieces.

Karmen's "visions" are so graphically and nail-bitingly described that it didn't take me long to finish this book. It is very rare that I come across books in which every little detail is so well illustrated and the readers gets so immensely captured by the storyline.

This is the first time I have read one of Ashley's books but I will be sure to check out her other work.

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Uvi Poznansky
Plunge through a thin film of reality into a nightmarish abyss
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 August 2015
The question on the cover, in small lettering just beside the title, is “What will she sacrifice” but perhaps the real question is, Whom will she sacrifice: her loved one or herself? And of what value is the sacrifice to maintain her sanity and perception of right and wrong, lie and truth, good and evil?

Written with dark, sensual descriptions, the book opens with a stunningly strange scene of a ritual, where a man willingly submits to be sacrificed on a stone altar by his pregnant wife. It allows for multiple points of view: that of Karmen, a young woman whose literary work is successful in the eyes of the public and disturbing in her own eyes. “I always believed the end times would come, but I never considered that I would be at the front lines when they arrived,” she says, fearful that her work would usher in the age of evil. “If my former destiny was to write the lie…I wonder what will happen if I decide to tell the truth?”

Another point of view is that of Heyllal (whose name, which stands for Lucifer, occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible and brings to mind the image of a morning star fallen from the sky.) He takes sadistic pleasure at “shredding the bodies down to mere piles of jumbled, unrecognizable gunk.” And later, “He had forgotten … how the screams of agony seemed so much sweeter when reverberating through an eardrum.” Reflecting on his journey through history he says, “He had been close several times over the years to achieving his rightful place on earth only to be trumped by some pathetic act of love or sacrifice.”

I enjoy the recursive aspect of this idea: just like her protagonist, author Ashley Fontainne reflects in this book on the nature of success, and just like her, she does so through writing that can be seen as profoundly disquieting. THE LIE is not for the faint of heart. Are you ready to plunge through a thin film of reality into a nightmarish abyss?

Five stars.

This book was sent to me gratis for an unbiased review.

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Heather Ay
I cannot wait for the movie!
Reviewed in the United States on 18 October 2015
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Holy freaking creepy book Batman.

Seriously.

I grabbed this when Ashley Fontainne had it marked down to $0.00 on Amazon and I am so glad I did. Every single other book she has written is now on my Kindle Wishlist as a must read.

I have kind of jumped ahead of myself. I started reading this when I was looking for something outside of the romance books I had been reading one after another for blog tours. I know some grabbed this in the Christian category but I grabbed it out of horror. I need a healthy dose of horror and creepiness to scare the pants off of me.

I got it.

I am just going to go into this review telling you how I felt. You know from the blurb this is about Karmen, how she is recluse, how if her secret comes out she’ll be branded a lunatic throughout the world. There is so much going on in this book that we don’t get in the description that I am just going to jump into how I felt without giving any spoilers.

This book was intense from page one. It set the scene for the rest of the book as we wait to find out how that moment ties in with the rest of the book. We don’t know who we can trust, is actually what they say they are, who is here to help, and who is there to harm. I found myself thinking I knew who was who just to be blown away by a turn in the storyline.

The use of scripture in the book strengthened the words that were there on the page. It led to even more intrigue, but also strengthened understanding of sequences in the book. I wouldn’t call this a Christian book as most think of Christian novels, but it does have an element of Christianity to it. It’s a story of end times and a battle of good vs evil.

It was absolutely amazing. As I have already said, it was creepy but it was also incredibly suspenseful, a thriller, a horror book. I loved our main character. The other characters, as I said I didn’t know who I could trust. I would start off thinking I liked them, then I turn around and hate them. All of the characters were so well written, complexly developed, and integral to the storyline.

I cannot wait for the movie! I will be first in line to see how well this translates to the big screen. I really hope they don’t take anything huge away from the book in their interpretation to film.

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BirdieTracy
Running From the Devil
Reviewed in the United States on 28 March 2014
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This is the type of book that used to scare the when I was a kid. I always felt more threatened by horror stories involving religion than any other type. Let's face it, to a churchgoing small town kid, vampires, werewolves, mummies, and even aliens, were small potatoes when compared to the devil. In this book that would be devil with a capital D.

Karmen, a young author, flees to Martin, Kentucky after having a bit of a meltdown while being interviewed on television. She is a quiet person and was talked into doing the program by her mother and uncle. Unfortunately she doesn't know that the woods outside Martin are, quite literally, the devil's stomping ground.

Everything seems normal when Karmen and her best friend Emily arrive at the family cabin. Well, except for the visions and the voices Karmen hears at the general store they stop at for supplies.

As her 23rd birthday approaches she and Emily are joined by Mitchell, a boyfriend she hasn't seen since his enlistment in the service, and Karmen's mother. It's going to turn out to be one heck of a birthday.

I enjoyed reading this book. It moves along at a quick pace and the author did a good job of building suspense block by block. Karmen is a likeable young woman overwhelmed by inexplicable events that seem to be directed solely at her.

This is a terrific story. And I have to admit that even after all these years this book made me a bit nervous.

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Finally pick up speed!
Reviewed in the United States on 25 April 2015
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Wasn't a bad start but didn't really pick up speed until half way through. Glad I stuck it out to see the very interesting possibility of everyone's demise.

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Felicia G
An awesome, dark and suspenseful read.
Reviewed in the United States on 21 April 2015
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The Lie by Ashley Fontaine is amazing! This book was a psychological thriller, pre-apocalyptic Christian novel, mystery and suspense all rolled into one. I felt like I was on a roller coaster ride with so many twists and turns, and I didn’t want it to end. I could not stop reading, and when I did I couldn’t stop thinking about this book.
Karmen is a bestselling, world renowned author at 23, has been writing since she was 16 and every book she writes is a hit. No one dislikes her books and everyone says that they are eerily similar to long dead authors. Why is this? Well, Karmen has a secret, a big one, and if it ever got out they would lock her away in a mental institution. Her secret? She sees dead people. Yup, long dead authors visit her in her dreams and when she wakes up the stories are all typed up on her computer. The problem (other than dead people visiting her) is that she does not remember typing a word. Karmen thinks it just her imagination working overtime since it happens when she sleeps so she doesn’t really worry too much about what is really going on. She learns to be okay with it as long as no one asks her where her ideas come from. She accomplishes this by never going out and never granting interviews.
Things start to get bad when her dreams become reality and she starts to see dead people when she is awake. Thinking that she is having a nervous breakdown because of her trying to overcome her writers block, she goes on vacation with her childhood best friend to a cabin in Kentucky and is joined there by her friend Mitch. Hoping for a relaxing time to escape the pressure she was under, Karmen soon finds that this is not the case as things go from bad to worse and her friends are drawn into her madness. Now that her friends have heard and seen some of what Karmen has she has no choice but to tell them what is going on and where her ideas come from. They soon realize that this is not the work of a writer’s overactive creative imagination, but something far more sinister and greater than they ever imagined.
This is a fight between good and evil, God and Satan, and Karmen and her friends are caught in the middle, but will she realize this before it is too late to save her herself and her friends? And what will happen when Karmen realizes that her entire life was a lie? Her entire world is about to shift, the truth will be revealed to her and she will have to chose a side. And when a man shows up claiming that God (whom she was always told was a lie) sent him to help her will she be able to trust this man and what he says?
This was an awesome book. Well worth the read. The ending was great and unexpected and I am looking forward to reading more from this author.

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DL
There's no way to decribe accurately just how AMAZING this book is.
Reviewed in the United States on 21 November 2013
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I don't know how to write this except to say that I LOVED this book!! I cannot stress enough how good this book is. Ms. Fontainne is a new writer and I was introduced to her books by reading the "Eviscerating the Snake" trilogy. If you love mysteries, you HAVE to read the trilogy. You are immediately hooked from the first page and almost speed read to find out what is going to happen next and you never see the ending coming. I love mysteries and read a couple of books a week and if you like Harlan Coben, Gillian Flynn, Chevy Stevens & Chelsea Cain, you will love Ashley Fontainne.

Now about The Lie. I don't know what to write for fear that you may think it's not your genre. It's a mystery book, throw in some ghosts, a biblical theme, twists and turns, major deception and the most shocking twist at the end that you don't see coming. The book is really about three main events/characters that all fit into one story. The beginning of the book has a chapter detailing each character/event. How can all that make for a satisfying book worth the money and time to read? Ghosts, the bible? How can it work? IT DOES!! Normally I would not have even read it had it not been for me reading her previous work and believing that she could pull off what others may think would be an impossible storyline. The only thing I can say is read this. To say anymore, I just can't put it into writing without doing it justice. I'm confident that once you read this book, Ms. Fontainne will become one of your favorite writers too. I can honestly say that Ms. Fontainne could make up a story about just about anything and you'll be begging for more books. Take a chance. Buy it. It's not expensive. What have you got to lose? And I guarantee you will love it and then buy her other books if you haven't read them already.

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