A feminist Liar Liar meets the romantic charm of This Time Next Year, in this page-turning debut about a woman who loses the ability to lie on her 30th birthday-and the challenges she faces as a woman in work and in love when she finally must tell nothing but the truth.

It's the eve of super-publicist Lucy Green's 30th birthday, a day she hopes will bring the promotion she deserves and a proposal from her boyfriend. But when said boyfriend stands her up in favor of his job, yet again, she instead finds herself alone making a wish for a perfect birthday over a cocktail, with only the handsome bartender to keep her company.

The next day when Lucy wakes up, she can't seem to force herself to go to spin class-instead she orders a big gooey breakfast sandwich. She also can't bring herself to layer on her usual concealer and eyeliner-a clean face is better for crying in the work bathroom anyway. And she simply can't bear to wear the shapewear or thong needed for the power outfit she had planned-so it's a loose dress for her. Chalking her uncharacteristic choices up to her new age and the hangover that came with it, she heads to work.

But when Lucy arrives at the office, she realizes not only can she no longer lie to herself, she can't lie to anyone else, which would always pose a challenge in her line of work, but is especially difficult now as she attempts to land a hot new starlet as a client, and her perpetual creep of a boss's advances become increasingly inappropriate. Now that she can't hide how she feels, Lucy must confront all of the injustices-small and large-she's faced on a daily basis at work, in her relationship, and in every other aspect of her life…and the truth is bound to come out in a big way.

This sharp, bighearted, and page-turning novel tackles all of the lies women are encouraged to tell just to get by in today's world-in life, love, and in the workplace-and the liberation that can come from being honest.