Shailene Woodley will star alongside Lindsay Lohan in Count My Lies, a limited Hulu series based on Sophie Stava’s novel of the same name.  Lohan was first announced to star in the series April, per Deadline, marking her first leading TV role. A release date and additional casting has not yet been announced.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Woodley, 33, will portray Sloan Caraway, described as “a compulsive liar whose fabrications secure her a nannying job for Violet (Lohan). But what starts as a dream job quickly unravels as the family’s secrets upend everyone’s lives.”

The show will be run by former This Is Us executive producers/co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, who also wrote the series. Woodley and Lohan will also executive produce.

The synopsis for the Count My Lies novel from Simon & Schuster reads: “Sloane Caraway is a liar. Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting. So, when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can’t help herself—she tells the girl’s (very attractive) dad she’s a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl’s foot. With this lie and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy and privileged Jay and Violet Lockhart—the perfect New York couple, with a brownstone, a daughter in private school, and summers on Block Island. But maybe Sloane isn’t the only one lying, and all that’s picture-perfect harbors a much more dangerous truth. To say anything more is to spoil the most exciting, twisty, and bitingly smart suspense novel to come out in years. The thing about lies is that they add up, form their own truth, and a twisted prison of a world.”

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