The Lies We Conjure    by Sarah Henning Order:  USA  Can Tor, 2025 (2025) Softcover, e-Book     Reviewed by Hilary Williamson In The Lies We Conjure, Sarah Henning gives readers a YA romantasy starring Colorado high school students, sisters Ruby and Wren. Their life gets complicated (and perilous) after they receive an offer that's really too good to be true at a local Renaissance Fest where they have summer jobs. They're approached by a very pushy old woman, Marsyas Blackgate, who wants to hire them to pretend to be her absent granddaughters at a Hegemony Manor dinner party. $2,000 each for the evening! Ruby and Wren do look like the girls in the photograph she shows them. Though Ruby is reluctant, Wren immediately accepts for them both. The venue looks like a haunted house, when they arrive posing as Lavinia and Kaysa Blackgate and wearing the bracelets that Marsyas insisted on. There they meet the teen members of the family - including cousins Auden, Evander and Winter - as well as matriarch Ursula Hegemony herself. Dinner starts, their hostess begins to speak - and suddenly collapses dead. Marsyas disappears. Magic goes into effect - locked gates and a curse demanding location of relics and solution of the murder within three days. When Ruby and Wren realize that all other party members are powerful witches, they fear for their lives. They're 'stuck in a haunted-ass house with witches' and 'need to start thinking out of the box or we're dead meat.' Slowly, secrets are revealed and tension rises until the story concludes in a maelstrom of murder and magic. Note: Opinions expressed in reviews and articles on this site are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of BookLoons. Find more Teens books on our Shelves or in our book Reviews