"Oh my goodness, Elena, this is mind-blowing!" Luke exclaimed, shaking her gently. "It's so incredible!" "It's not incredible, it's unsettling," Elena replied, raising an eyebrow at him. "Knowing when someone is lying isn't cool, Luke. We're human, we should have the freedom to fib whenever we want. I don't want to be some kind of weird truth-seeking machine." Elena Harper had one simple wish: to finish high school like any ordinary teenager. In a prestigious private school, she aimed for good grades in every subject except math, cherished her tight-knit group of best friends, secretly harbored feelings for one of the school's most popular boys, and, unfortunately, lived at an orphanage. But her life took an unexpected turn when she woke up one morning with the ability to distinguish between truth and lies. This newfound power threatened to derail her dream of a normal teenage existence, as she was now faced with the reality of being a human lie detector. As she navigated through her daily life, she discovered that even the simplest details, including her friends' names, were layered with deception.
