THE GOLDEN LIE A Novel By Eunice Omoyeme Aremu (Omoye) Mental Health with Omoye

Maya Ellison has spent her whole life as her family's designated problem, blamed, criticized, quietly erased, while her sister Bree could do no wrong.

When their mother dies suddenly, Maya is pulled back into the house she swore she'd never sleep in again. In her mother's desk, she finds a letter that was never sent, a single unfinished sentence, and a question that won't let her go: what happened the summer I was nine?

The answer is waiting behind a locked door down the hall. A brother no one ever mentioned. A sister who's kept his secret since she was fourteen. A family that has spent eighteen years making absolutely certain the truth never got out.

Maya was never the problem. She was just the easiest one to blame.

Now she wants to know why.