If I Lie. Corrine Jackson. Simon Pulse. 978-1-4424-5413-2. Daughter of a Marine, girlfriend of a
Marine, and living in a Marine community, Sophie Topper Quinn understands the
importance of a code of honor. When her boyfriend Carey asks her to keep a
promise and then goes missing in action in Afghanistan, Sophie struggles to live
her own code of honor. Sophie undergoes months of physical, emotional, and
verbal abuse from former friends and the people of the town over her sworn
promise not to share the secret that Carey is gay. Bullying. LGBT.