You Could Have Fooled Me

By Rashidat Bidemi

She built the perfect life. He built the perfect lie.
Claire Weston has everything a woman could want. A stunning home inside the exclusive gates of Hartwell Heights. A husband who is charming, successful, and admired by everyone who meets him. A social circle that looks, from the outside, like something out of a glossy magazine. Claire knows how lucky she is. She has been told so her entire married life.
But luck has a shelf life. And so do lies.
When a single moment of suspicion refuses to leave her alone, Claire begins to look closer at the life she thought she knew. What she finds does not just shatter her marriage. It destroys her understanding of everything she believed to be real. Daniel Weston is not the man she married. He never was. Behind the tailored suits, the warm smile, and the whispered reassurances is a stranger who has been running a second life with terrifying precision.
And the worst part? She was not the only one who knew.
As Claire peels back layer after layer of carefully constructed deception, she discovers that betrayal rarely comes from enemies. It comes from the people sitting across from you at dinner, raising a glass and meeting your eyes without flinching.
In Hartwell Heights, everyone performs. Everyone protects themselves. And everyone, it turns out, has something to hide.
The truth will come out. But the question is not whether Claire survives the lie.
The question is what will be left of her when she does.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H28JRKGR
• ISBN13: 9798235250147
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Rashidat Bidemi
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"