Just a Little Lie by Mallory Rush is the 1st in her Shades of Deception series of f/m contemporary romances which are apparently centred around The Big Lie told by one of the protagonists about their identity and nevertheless realizing True Love anyway, free courtesy of publisher ePublishing Works! (exclamation mark theirs), who are e-printing it from its 1992 Bantam Loveswept edition originally under the title "I Do" and the pseudonym of Olivia Rupprecht (info on this courtesy of a previous incarnation of the Romance megathread, since it's not at all linked up to the original paperback).
This has been previously offered free in 2013.
Currently free @
B&N (may also drop in the
UK later),
Kobo &
iTunes &
Google Play (all available to Canadians), and will likely get matched in selected countries at
Amazon eventually (linked for your price-drop-check convenience.
Description
Mariah Garnet didn't mean any harm when she sent her older sister's picture to Sgt. Sol Standish—her pen-pal stationed in the Middle East—and forgot to mention that at 18 she's on a fast track to becoming a surgeon like her dad.
Then Sol is badly wounded in combat, and there's no time to straighten things out before Mariah grants him his last wish—her hand in marriage—over the phone.
Sol didn't expect to live, or return home with a battered body and defeated spirit, to face a new bride who isn't at all what he'd expected.
Now Mariah must convince him that she's much more than the little lies that landed his ring on her finger.