Tweet Share There probably will not be a more intriguing line of text in a crime thriller this year than the one protagonist Claire Hunter delivers in J.T. Ellison’s latest suspense thriller, Her Dark Lies: “I never said I was a good person.” A Nashville artist on the way to becoming the latest wife of eccentric entrepreneur Jack Compton, Claire is eager, almost desperate, to start a new life after a dark past. “With Jack by my side, I feel in control again, strong, capable,” Claire says. “I’m not that destabilized little girl who blamed herself for everyone’s bad moods and sharp words. … His love healed me, smoothed all my broken edges.”