A Suspense Mystery of Love and Deception "It All Started with a Lie" Released
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- A Suspense Mystery of Love and Deception "It All Started with a Lie" Released
- Impress Corporation has released "It All Started with a Lie," a suspense mystery novel that delves into the truth of a past event triggered by a high school reunion. The author is Mikumayutan, and the cover illustration is by Ayumi Sawa.
- Source: PR Times
- Date: June 17, 2026
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Impress Corporation has released "It All Started with a Lie," a suspense mystery novel that delves into the truth of a past event triggered by a high school reunion. The author is Mikumayutan, and the cover illustration is by Ayumi Sawa.
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- June 17, 2026
Impress Corporation has released "It All Started with a Lie," a suspense mystery novel that delves into the truth of a past event triggered by a high school reunion. The author is Mikumayutan, and the cover illustration is by Ayumi Sawa.
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Impress Corporation, which operates IT-related media businesses within the Impress Group, has published "It All Started with a Lie" (author: Mikumayutan) through Impress NextPublishing.
"It All Started with a Lie"
https://nextpublishing.jp/isbn/9784295605461
Author: Mikumayutan
Cover Illustration: Ayumi Sawa
Retail Price: E-book version ¥1,600 (excl. tax) / Printed book version ¥2,000 (excl. tax)
E-book Format: EPUB3
Printed Book Specifications: B6 size / Monochrome / 220 pages of text
ISBN: 978-4-295-60546-1
Publisher: Impress NextPublishing
＜＜Purpose and Content Introduction＞＞
Love and lies intersect. A suspense mystery of love and deception.
Time, which was supposed to have stopped, starts moving again with a high school reunion as the trigger.
The protagonist, Takao Tachibana, contacts a classmate, Ayumi Sato, who has been lingering in his memory with a sense of guilt, on a day when he is about to get married. She, who he reunites with after 8 years, has transformed into a popular actress known to everyone. However, this reunion awakens the memory of "a certain incident" that was sealed in the past.
During high school, various suspicions were whispered about the death of a classmate. Poison, the disappeared truth, and the intersecting lies and feelings. What happened back then?
As the present and the past intersect, the relationships between Takao, Ayumi, and the people around them gradually reveal their distortions. Things they wanted to protect, things they let go of, and regrets that still linger in their hearts. As they approach the truth, what they see is a cruel reality or perhaps salvation?
Love, friendship, jealousy, betrayal. While confronting the heart wounds that everyone carries, this youth suspense novel delves into the truth of a past event.
(Impress NextPublishing inherits the digital-first publishing model developed by Impress R&D and realizes a wide range of publishing projects in a speedy and sustainable form through e-books plus on-demand printing.)
＜＜Table of Contents＞＞
1. Reunion
2. Meeting and Parting [High School 1st Year, Age 17]
3. Mother and Daughter [Kiriko Yamaga, Age 45]
4. Housing Complex [Natsuki Yamaga, Age 18]
5. Lie [Ayumi Sato, Age 26]
6. Reunion [Ayumi Sato, Age 26]
Afterword
＜＜Author Introduction＞＞
Mikumayutan
Writer
Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1979.
Actively publishing novels and essays on the web platforms note and tales, gaining enthusiastic fans. Two works in the Mystery Novel Division and Entertainment Original Division reached the intermediate selection in the "Creation Award 2025." In addition to winning numerous contests, she made her commercial novel debut with this work in 2026. Also active as the president of the Tokai note branch of the creation community.
Authored works include "The Beginning of a Life of Writing: Mindset for Continuing to Write Rather Than Writing Ability" (Impress NextPublishing).
＜＜Cover Illustrator Introduction＞＞
Ayumi Sawa
Artist and Illustrator
Born in 1993. Known for her distinctive touch reminiscent of girl and young adult comics from the 1990s, with women as the main motif. Her delicate expression descriptions and eye-catching designs are highly praised. In addition to creating cover art and CD jackets for works such as "Continuation of Mitchi's Tokkora Travel" by Michiko Koyamachi and the CD album "CLASH" by Yamiko Hebiike, she has extensive experience in creating for women's media in the beauty, fashion, and health genres. Actively working across various genres.
As an artist, she also presents her works mainly through SNS and exhibitions. With "Recognizing Love" as her theme, she depicts the moment and the fluctuating process of "noticing" and "recognizing" with women as the main motif. Since childhood, she has been interested in the structure of the heart, and through spiritual analysis and the experience of bereavement, she has come to focus on the act of "recognizing." While extending the surrealistic perspective, she expresses a more human world.
＜＜Sales Stores＞＞
E-books:
Amazon Kindle Store, Rakuten Kobo eBook Store, Apple Books, Kinoppy by Kinokuniya Bookstores, Google Play Store, honto eBook Store, Sony Reader Store, BookLive!, BOOK☆WALKER
Printed Books:
Amazon.co.jp
*Note: Sales at each store will begin as preparations are completed.
*Note: Orders can also be placed from general bookstores nationwide.
[Impress Corporation] https://www.impress.co.jp/
Impress Corporation comprehensively develops and operates business companies, including the "Can Do" series of PC guidebooks with cumulative sales of 80 million copies, "Digital Camera Magazine" and other periodicals, and the "Impress Watch Series" as a comprehensive digital news service with the largest access in Japan as a specialized media for IT-related fields, consumer-oriented media, and corporate-oriented IT-related media such as "IT Leaders." We are widely developing IT-related publishing media businesses and digital media & service businesses.
[Impress Group] https://www.impressholdings.com/
Impress Holdings Corporation (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Yukiko Tsukamoto) is a media group with Impress Holdings Corporation as its holding company. We are developing highly specialized media & service and solution businesses with "IT," "music," "design," "mountains and nature," "aviation and railways," "mobile services," and "academic and engineering" as our main themes. We are also involved in the development and operation of content business platforms.
[NextPublishing]
NextPublishing is the name of the electronic publishing platform (or method) developed by Impress R&D. It solves traditional publishing issues such as simultaneous production of e-books and printed books, and elimination of stockouts through Print On Demand (POD). This enables the publication of multi-product, low-volume publications that are economically difficult in traditional publishing, aiming for the circulation of diverse knowledge held by excellent individuals and organizations.
[Inquiries regarding this matter]
Impress Corporation: PubX Division
E-mail: np-info@impress.co.jp
d5875-7445-4b5c8ef1f71fe752c3cd3732f9ae8e1a.pdf
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"It All Started with a Lie"
https://nextpublishing.jp/isbn/9784295605461
Author: Mikumayutan
Cover Illustration: Ayumi Sawa
Retail Price: E-book version ¥1,600 (excl. tax) / Printed book version ¥2,000 (excl. tax)
E-book Format: EPUB3
Printed Book Specifications: B6 size / Monochrome / 220 pages of text
ISBN: 978-4-295-60546-1
Publisher: Impress NextPublishing
＜＜Purpose and Content Introduction＞＞
Love and lies intersect. A suspense mystery of love and deception.
Time, which was supposed to have stopped, starts moving again with a high school reunion as the trigger.
The protagonist, Takao Tachibana, contacts a classmate, Ayumi Sato, who has been lingering in his memory with a sense of guilt, on a day when he is about to get married. She, who he reunites with after 8 years, has transformed into a popular actress known to everyone. However, this reunion awakens the memory of "a certain incident" that was sealed in the past.
During high school, various suspicions were whispered about the death of a classmate. Poison, the disappeared truth, and the intersecting lies and feelings. What happened back then?
As the present and the past intersect, the relationships between Takao, Ayumi, and the people around them gradually reveal their distortions. Things they wanted to protect, things they let go of, and regrets that still linger in their hearts. As they approach the truth, what they see is a cruel reality or perhaps salvation?
Love, friendship, jealousy, betrayal. While confronting the heart wounds that everyone carries, this youth suspense novel delves into the truth of a past event.
(Impress NextPublishing inherits the digital-first publishing model developed by Impress R&D and realizes a wide range of publishing projects in a speedy and sustainable form through e-books plus on-demand printing.)
＜＜Table of Contents＞＞
1. Reunion
2. Meeting and Parting [High School 1st Year, Age 17]
3. Mother and Daughter [Kiriko Yamaga, Age 45]
4. Housing Complex [Natsuki Yamaga, Age 18]
5. Lie [Ayumi Sato, Age 26]
6. Reunion [Ayumi Sato, Age 26]
Afterword
＜＜Author Introduction＞＞
Mikumayutan
Writer
Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1979.
Actively publishing novels and essays on the web platforms note and tales, gaining enthusiastic fans. Two works in the Mystery Novel Division and Entertainment Original Division reached the intermediate selection in the "Creation Award 2025." In addition to winning numerous contests, she made her commercial novel debut with this work in 2026. Also active as the president of the Tokai note branch of the creation community.
Authored works include "The Beginning of a Life of Writing: Mindset for Continuing to Write Rather Than Writing Ability" (Impress NextPublishing).
＜＜Cover Illustrator Introduction＞＞
Ayumi Sawa
Artist and Illustrator
Born in 1993. Known for her distinctive touch reminiscent of girl and young adult comics from the 1990s, with women as the main motif. Her delicate expression descriptions and eye-catching designs are highly praised. In addition to creating cover art and CD jackets for works such as "Continuation of Mitchi's Tokkora Travel" by Michiko Koyamachi and the CD album "CLASH" by Yamiko Hebiike, she has extensive experience in creating for women's media in the beauty, fashion, and health genres. Actively working across various genres.
As an artist, she also presents her works mainly through SNS and exhibitions. With "Recognizing Love" as her theme, she depicts the moment and the fluctuating process of "noticing" and "recognizing" with women as the main motif. Since childhood, she has been interested in the structure of the heart, and through spiritual analysis and the experience of bereavement, she has come to focus on the act of "recognizing." While extending the surrealistic perspective, she expresses a more human world.
＜＜Sales Stores＞＞
E-books:
Amazon Kindle Store, Rakuten Kobo eBook Store, Apple Books, Kinoppy by Kinokuniya Bookstores, Google Play Store, honto eBook Store, Sony Reader Store, BookLive!, BOOK☆WALKER
Printed Books:
Amazon.co.jp
*Note: Sales at each store will begin as preparations are completed.
*Note: Orders can also be placed from general bookstores nationwide.
[Impress Corporation] https://www.impress.co.jp/
Impress Corporation comprehensively develops and operates business companies, including the "Can Do" series of PC guidebooks with cumulative sales of 80 million copies, "Digital Camera Magazine" and other periodicals, and the "Impress Watch Series" as a comprehensive digital news service with the largest access in Japan as a specialized media for IT-related fields, consumer-oriented media, and corporate-oriented IT-related media such as "IT Leaders." We are widely developing IT-related publishing media businesses and digital media & service businesses.
[Impress Group] https://www.impressholdings.com/
Impress Holdings Corporation (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Yukiko Tsukamoto) is a media group with Impress Holdings Corporation as its holding company. We are developing highly specialized media & service and solution businesses with "IT," "music," "design," "mountains and nature," "aviation and railways," "mobile services," and "academic and engineering" as our main themes. We are also involved in the development and operation of content business platforms.
[NextPublishing]
NextPublishing is the name of the electronic publishing platform (or method) developed by Impress R&D. It solves traditional publishing issues such as simultaneous production of e-books and printed books, and elimination of stockouts through Print On Demand (POD). This enables the publication of multi-product, low-volume publications that are economically difficult in traditional publishing, aiming for the circulation of diverse knowledge held by excellent individuals and organizations.
[Inquiries regarding this matter]
Impress Corporation: PubX Division
E-mail: np-info@impress.co.jp
d5875-7445-4b5c8ef1f71fe752c3cd3732f9ae8e1a.pdf
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FAQ
What is the theme of this novel?
The theme of this novel is a suspense mystery that delves into the truth of past events, centered around love and deception.
Who is the author?
The author is Mikumayutan, who actively publishes novels and essays on the web platforms note and tales.
Who is the cover illustrator?
The cover illustrator is Ayumi Sawa, known for her delicate expression descriptions with women as the main motif.
How much does this novel cost?
The e-book version is ¥1,600 (excl. tax), and the printed book version is ¥2,000 (excl. tax).
Where can I purchase this novel?
The e-book can be purchased at Amazon Kindle Store, Rakuten Kobo eBook Store, Apple Books, etc., and the printed book can be purchased at Amazon.co.jp.