The Year I Believed A Lie

Naomi Rae Whitfield has always believed motherhood was her destiny. Years of waiting, loss, and quiet shame have hardened that belief into something dangerous, an unspoken need she carries into adulthood.

So, when she gets the good news that she’s pregnant, Naomi doesn’t question it. She embraces the news with a relief so powerful it silences every doubt. Her marriage steadies. Her body begins to change. Her identity reshapes itself around the life she is growing inside her.

But certainty can be a trap.

As the months pass, subtle inconsistencies surface—rushed appointments, unanswered questions, moments that don’t quite align. Naomi dismisses them all, unwilling to hear anything that threatens the future she’s finally claimed. The more she believes, the more her grip on reality begins to slip.

When the truth finally emerges, it doesn’t arrive gently. It shatters Naomi’s sense of self, fractures her marriage, and forces her to confront the most terrifying possibility of all, the danger was never her body. It was her mind.

The Year I Believed a Lie is a haunting psychological thriller about obsession disguised as hope, the terror of trusting your own perceptions, and how easily belief can become madness when the truth is too painful to face.