In a cold October rain, nine-year-old Henry Molnar pedals through the streets of Parkerton, Pennsylvania—empty-handed, wet, and terrified. He was sent to fetch his father’s shirts. He failed. And he knows what comes next.

So begins Secrets and Lies, the first volume of The Molnar Chronicles. Through Henry’s eyes, we enter a world where silence protects power, lies pass for kindness, and survival requires learning when—and how—to deceive.

As Henry finds refuge under a neighbor’s porch, a lifelong friendship begins. And with it, a pact: secrets must be kept, even if it means lying.

Set in a steel town built on pride and denial, this is the story of what they inherit—and what they dare not say aloud.