Pants on fire / Cabot, Meg

Senior Katie Ellison has built her popularity on a base of lies that threatens to come tumbling down when Tommy Sullivan, her best friend in middle school, returns after a four-year absence and seems determined to strike up a relationship again in spite of Katie's past betrayal.

Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.