We Were Liars: Beginning

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart takes place on a private island of Cadence Sinclair Eastman's grandfather. Cadence is the main character and the novel is told in her perspective (first person). She visits every summer to the island and has many memorable experiences. While on the island near Cape Cod that summer Cadence struggles to forget the circumstances that had happened to years prior, leading up to a near death experience.

But now she has grown to her friends/cousins, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat. They together are called the liars. And have their own group that they spend together every summer on the private island. Gat is her aunts husbands nephew who is now romantically involved. I wonder why they are called the liars. I am only a few chapters in and excited to see what becomes of the group of friends.