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All she wanted was a new job, but she got more than she bargained for…

For twenty years, Ellie O’Neill successfully balanced her defense contractor career with being a single parent. Ready for a change, she accepts a position managing a very important client, the U.S. Navy. Her request for a security clearance triggers an investigation into a tragic family secret.

When Ellie was five years old, she thought she saw something fall from the sky. The incident was reported to the U.S. military, which searches her family farm but finds nothing. Soon after, her mother loses her job with the U.S. Treasury and then disappears from their lives forever.

Ellie courageously pits her problem-solving skills against a powerful and corrupt politician looking to safeguard his haunting cover-up. Her drive to make things right leads her on a dangerous journey to find the truth. Ellie needs to trust her instincts and depend on her friends to ultimately uncover what really happened when she was a child.

The Tales We Tell is a riveting mystery that explores the power of truth in a world built on lies and secrets.

While Ellie O'Neill awaits the start of a new job, she befriends Brianna, a runaway teenage girl with something to hide. As her relationship with the girl builds, Ellie realizes she has been neglecting her own family because she hasn’t come to terms with the shocking return of her mother, who disappeared more than fifty years ago.

Ellie is a sharp-minded businesswoman known for her keen insight and unyielding determination, but she also has a reputation for being a loner. Ellie uncovers a tangled web of deceit and betrayal that threatens to put the lives of countless Navy sailors on the line. As she delves deeper, she finds a trail of hidden connections linking influential figures in Washington to individuals planning to sabotage Navy submarines. The closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous her journey becomes.

Complicating matters is her growing relationship with Daniel Winstead, an instructor at the Navy War College with secrets of his own. With time running out and enemies closing in, Ellie must rely on her instincts and expertise to expose a conspiracy that could shake the country's foundation.

In a world where loyalty is a commodity and truth is the most dangerous weapon, Ellie O'Neill is the only one who can bring justice to light – if she and her friends survive.