Below is the complete list of Rina Kent’s Lies & Truths Duet books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Lies & Truths Duet Books
About Lies & Truths Duet
Rina Kent’s Lies and Truths Duet is a dark new-adult romance built around memory loss, concealed identities, destructive family secrets, and a relationship in which love and resentment have become almost impossible to separate. The two novels, All the Lies and All the Truths, tell one continuous story centered on Reina Ellis and Asher Carson. The first volume establishes the mystery and ends before the central conflict is resolved, while the second reveals the history that transformed their relationship into a battle of guilt, obsession, and revenge.
When Reina awakens without her memories, she is told that she was popular, beautiful, wealthy, and nearly untouchable within her privileged social world. She remembers none of the personality, relationships, or actions that supposedly defined her. The people around her already have fixed opinions about who she is, leaving Reina dependent on accounts she cannot verify and vulnerable to anyone prepared to use her confusion against her.
Asher is presented as her future husband, but he offers neither reassurance nor uncomplicated protection. Silent, controlled, and openly hostile, he believes Reina must answer for something she did before losing her memory. His anger is connected to a fire, a dead girl, and a shared past that Reina cannot reconstruct. Their engagement therefore feels less like a romantic commitment than an unfinished punishment whose rules Asher understands and Reina does not.
All the Lies uses amnesia to create uncertainty about both character and motive. Reina cannot assume that she was innocent simply because she no longer remembers being cruel, manipulative, or responsible for harm. At the same time, the version of her described by others may have been constructed through rumor, resentment, deliberate deception, or mistaken identity. Her investigation becomes internal as well as external: she is searching for what happened while deciding whether the person she used to be should determine who she becomes next.
The relationship with Asher intensifies that uncertainty. His attraction to Reina exists beside fury and distrust, while her instinctive responses to him suggest an emotional history her conscious mind cannot access. Kent builds the romance through confrontation, fragmented recollection, shifting loyalties, and the possibility that both protagonists are acting on incomplete versions of the truth. Neither can move forward until the events surrounding the fire and death are understood.
All the Truths continues directly from the first book, replacing speculation with revelations that alter the meaning of earlier scenes. Family relationships, identities, and long-preserved secrets move into the foreground as Reina’s past becomes clearer. The second novel is not a separate romance or companion story; it completes the emotional and suspense arcs established in All the Lies. Reading it first would expose the answers before the duet has created the uncertainty that gives them weight.
The duet belongs to Kent’s interconnected Rinaverse and appears after the Royal Elite and Kingdom books in her suggested reading order. Familiarity with those novels adds context to the surrounding families and later generational connections, but Reina and Asher’s story remains understandable as an independent two-book sequence.
Its central question is not simply whether Reina can recover her memory. It is whether truth can repair a relationship built through deception, or whether learning everything will finally destroy the bond that lies and obsession kept alive.