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Love can survive anything, except the lies we tell to protect it
Jennifer and Mark Oberg’s marriage began in laughter and friendship, and a misunderstanding that became the fault line beneath everything that followed. After twenty years, their bond has thinned into distance and unspoken resentment.
When a fantasy about opening their marriage begins as playful banter, Jen sees it as a way to spark Mark’s jealousy, one of the only signs of passion she still recognizes in him. To her surprise, the game works. For a while, it feels like they’ve rediscovered each other, tucked safely inside a bubble of whispered rules and private adventures.
But when fantasy collides with reality, cracks widen into chasms. Outside temptations, long-buried grief, and the truths they’ve never dared to say aloud threaten to destroy the fragile balance they’ve built.
Every Lie We Told is a domestic drama about the risks we take to be truly seen, the quiet heartbreak of secrets, and the resilience of love when it’s tested to its breaking point. At once intimate and unflinching, it asks: when the lies we told each other finally fall away, can what remains be enough to hold us together?
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Where do fairy tale monsters come from?
Do they exist only in stories, or do the stories describe something real? Gaspard de Millet never lost his ability to imagine, despite his experiences, both as a child whose world is disrupted after Agincourt, and while serving as a chevalier during the long decades of war that followed. It’s now time for his own sons to journey into a changing world. Before they go, he means to instruct them in chivalry, and sparks their imaginations with the tale of an honorable man tormented by an ogre. But theirs weren’t the only young minds he’d inflamed. His man-at-arms burns for vengeance, a hidden ember lit by Gaspard’s words years before. When it seems an ogre has appeared in their midst, Gaspard must teach his children a much different lesson about villains and heroes.