Escaping Pretense

<p><strong>She walked out of the towers on 9/11-and into a life she was never meant to live.</strong></p><p></p><p>From the author of <em>The Essence of Shade</em> comes Deborah Jean Miller's <em>Escaping Pretense</em>-a gripping tale of deception survival and unexpected redemption.  At its center is a woman who has perfected the art of manipulation-unlovable calculating and dangerously adept at bending others to her will. When her schemes of embezzlement threaten to unravel fate intervenes in the most unimaginable way: she walks out of the burning towers on 9/11 and vanishes into the chaos.</p><p></p><p>With the world believing she perished that day she seizes the chance to become someone new. Far from New York in a foreign land she struggles to reconcile her past sins with the fragile life she has built. As layers of her hardened exterior begin to crack compassion-once foreign to her nature-quietly takes root forcing her to face questions she has long buried: Can a heart trained in deception learn to love? And is true forgiveness ever possible for a soul steeped in betrayal?</p><p></p><p>Suspenseful thought-provoking and ultimately moving <em>Escaping Pretense</em> is a story of reinvention born from tragedy-a novel that will captivate readers who love women's fiction layered with intrigue moral complexity and the haunting search for grace.</p><p></p><p><strong>From the author of <em>The Essence of Shade</em> this compelling story will keep the reader cheering for the protagonist until the very end.</strong></p>