Books Over Drinks with Noelle Salazar

For readers of Madeline Martin and Beatriz Williams, this sweeping story follows a fearless nurse who must leave love behind when duty calls her back to the front.

“Noelle Salazar has an unerring instinct for writing tough women with big hearts. Flight nurse Kate Campbell has learned well from her hospital tour in the Pacific: keep your emotions locked down, your mind on your patients, and leave everything else behind as soon as the combat plane leaves the ground. But an injury sends her back stateside and then to the thick of the European front, where a blue-eyed soldier tempts her with promise of a softer future—if a deadly secret from Kate’s carefully-hidden past doesn’t destroy everything first. THE LIES WE LEAVE BEHIND is a globe-spanning wartime journey filled with pathos and heart!” ?—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code

“Perfectly compelling from first page to last. Here is an expertly researched work of historical fiction about how the crucible of war so often burns away the temporal and immaterial and shows us what we really desire and have convinced ourselves we need—and what we’re willing to do to win it. It’s the WW2 story you haven’t read and need to.” —Susan Meissner, USA Today bestselling author of Only the Beautiful

“This book has my heart. An emotional yet hopeful journey, with so many twists and turns I did not see coming, The Lies We Leave Behind feels like an instant war-time classic. Noelle Salazar’s latest is sure to be a favorite for 2024 and well beyond.” —Jenni L. Walsh, USA Today bestselling author of Unsinkable

Noelle Salazar was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, where she’s been a Navy recruit, a medical assistant, an NFL cheerleader, and always a storyteller. When she’s not writing, she can be found dodging raindrops and daydreaming of her next book. Her first novel, The Flight Girls, was an instant bestseller, a Forbes, Woman’s World & Hypable book of the month and a BookBub Top Recommended book from readers. Noelle lives in Bothell, Washington, with her husband and two children.