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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraphs
Author’s Note
Prologue
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-One
Twenty-Two
Twenty-Three
Twenty-Four
Twenty-Five
Twenty-Six
Twenty-Seven
Twenty-Eight
Twenty-Nine
Thirty
Thirty-One
Thirty-Two
Thirty-Three
Thirty-Four
Thirty-Five
Thirty-Six
Thirty-Seven
Thirty-Eight
Thirty-Nine
Forty
Forty-One
Forty-Two
Forty-Three
Forty-Four
Forty-Five
Forty-Six
Forty-Seven
Forty-Eight
Epilogue
Romance/Horror Trope List
Also by MaryJanice Davidson
About the Author
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
First published in the United States by St. Martin’s Griffin, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group
TRUTH, LIES, AND SECOND DATES. Copyright © 2020 by MaryJanice Alongi. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.
Cover design by Philip Pascuzzo
Cover illustration: plane © Malte Mueller / Getty Images
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Davidson, MaryJanice, author.
Title: Truth, lies, and second dates / MaryJanice Davidson.
Description: First edition. | New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, 2020.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020028416 | ISBN 9781250053176 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781466855458 (ebook)
Subjects: GSAFD: Love stories.
Classification: LCC PS3604.A949 T78 2020 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020028416
eISBN 9781466855458
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First Edition: 2020
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* Engine-indicating and crew-alerting system.
* This is a real shirt!
* The only acceptable treat distributed by ice cream trucks. This is not opinion but established fact.
* Medical review officer.
* To find out what Blake Tarbell has been enduring, check out Danger, Sweetheart. It’s problematic. He’s barely exaggerating.
* Slang for “passengers.”
* These bandages exist! These are a real thing!
www.perpetualkid.com/bandages/
* No relation, alas.
* MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority), the city’s subway system, is, from personal experience, pretty great.
* Narcotics Anonymous. For more info, check this: www.na.org.
† This really happened when I was there!
* Flight-crew slang. The ones who cluster around the gate right before boarding, inadvertently blocking everyone’s way so they can be first on the plane. I have been guilty of this many times over. #noregrets
* BBC Sherlock reference!
* Don’t judge! Happens all the time. It doesn’t mean that person is dumb. Just uncoordinated. Or so I’ve heard. Because that’s definitely never happened to me in real life. Not once.
* Ladies: get one. Like, yesterday.
† “Glad you liked it.”
* When Harry Met Sally …