{"product_id":"truth-lies-and-deceit-stories-9781954744424","title":"Truth, Lies, and Deceit: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTruth, Lies and Deceit\u003c\/em\u003e reveals through its short stories the rather warped and even bizarre values that permeate the daily lives of people in any number of venues. People like us? Well, of course not. Except... Well, perhaps you should take a look.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's \u003cem\u003eHello George\u003c\/em\u003e where a key senatorial aide finds himself driving the Senator's favorite car around the Washington Beltway at 2am in the morning and cannot remember how he came to be there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eNeophyte\u003c\/em\u003e a fledgling university public relations officer attends his first board of trustees meeting and at dinner finds himself seated between a predator heiress and a hail-fellow-well-met, much too likeable misogynist homophobe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGohn\u003c\/em\u003e, a family foundation executive director and her father make their first site visit to a well-regarded social service organization only to discover that it is in part financed by a very shady \"philanthropist.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSandhill Crane Estates\u003c\/em\u003e follows the downfall of a Florida neighborhood association tyrant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRace Day\u003c\/em\u003e is a kick ass high seas sailing adventure that finds a group of clueless 30 somethings caught in series a squalls and drifting toward the rocky Tortola shoreline in a disabled charter sailboat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Little White Lie\u003c\/em\u003e shows a bishop struggling with how to best save her diocese through approaching a very wealthy couple and recognizing that as part of the process she must lie in a manner as grandiose as it is ridiculous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd so it goes. Twelve stories for your reading pleasure.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCover, Nelson:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Nelson Cover is a former non-profit administrator and consultant whose clients included numerous colleges, universities, hospitals, medical centers and think tanks.His prior works include his first novel, Danced by the Light of the Moon and the two novels of the Sessions University series, From the Midst of Wickedness and A Matter of Circumstance.Today, Cover resides in Vero Beach Florida where he continues his non-profit involvement with performing arts, social service, environmental and animal welfare groups.","brand":"Epigraph Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50386990235922,"sku":"9781954744424","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_188fce17-17bb-43a6-ab03-89fe969d41f9.jpg?v=1728865695","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/truth-lies-and-deceit-stories-9781954744424","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}