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Bald-Faced LiarA Novel

by Victoria Helen Stone
Bald-Faced Liar: A Novel by Victoria Helen Stone
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Living a lie becomes a matter of life and death for a woman hiding from her past in a novel of mounting psychological suspense by the bestselling author of Jane Doe and The Hook.

Traveling nurse Elizabeth May has a promising new home in Santa Cruz. And another new identity. It’s a pattern of reinvention for a woman escaping her traumatic childhood—and hiding from the decades of notoriety and destruction that followed. Invisibility has kept Elizabeth safe. Until now. After all these years, someone sees her for who she is.

Threat by threat, a vengeful stalker is dismantling Elizabeth’s carefully constructed lifetime of lies. And no one in her temporary circle can be trusted—not her fleeting new love interest, not the supportive friend she knows only from online forums, and certainly not the police. They’ve never been there for her.

As fear sharpens to terror, Elizabeth soon discovers something about her past that even she didn’t know. The revelation could finally set her on a path of healing and redemption. Or, now alone in the dark, it could be Elizabeth’s worst nightmare.

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Release date: June 1, 2025

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Victoria Helen Stone

Victoria Helen Stone

When Victoria Helen Stone writes a woman into a corner, she doesn’t offer a ladder—she gives her a knife. Known for crafting taut psychological thrillers where justice simmers beneath the surface, Stone specializes in characters who’ve been underestimated for far too long. Her breakout novel Jane Doe set the tone: a story where vengeance isn’t just cathartic—it’s clinical. And that’s exactly what her readers have come to crave. Not chaos for shock value, but carefully controlled combustion.

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Stone didn’t arrive in the world of thrillers by accident. Before she began exploring the darker edges of the human psyche, she spent years penning romance novels under the name Victoria Dahl—more than 25 of them, in fact. That deep understanding of emotional nuance now underpins her suspense fiction, where relationships are never simple and motives rarely surface clean. The shift wasn’t just about genre; it was about voice. With her thrillers, she found the space to write women who are cold when they need to be, cunning when the moment demands it, and brave enough to choose their own version of justice.

Raised in the Midwest and now based in the mountainous quiet of Utah, Stone draws inspiration from places that hold their secrets close. Her settings—whether an isolated neighborhood, a suffocating small town, or a deceptively serene family home—mirror the hidden tensions of her characters. In books like The Last One Home and Problem Child, she weaves suspense not just through plot, but through psychology. Her protagonists aren't simply victims or heroines—they’re strategists, often pushed to their limits by betrayal, grief, or long-buried trauma.

Stone’s work stands out in a crowded thriller market for its restraint and precision. She doesn’t rely on shock twists or high-speed chases; the tension in her stories builds slowly, often through the eyes of women who have survived quietly for too long. Her writing is clean, intimate, and laced with insight into the darker corners of everyday life—particularly the roles women are expected to play, and what happens when they finally refuse.

Victoria Helen Stone writes not for the thrill alone, but for the reckoning. In her stories, survival isn’t just about escaping danger—it’s about refusing to disappear.

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