Confess (34 page)
Authors: Colleen Hoover
I’ll love you forever. Even when I can’t.
Acknowledgments
First and foremost, a huge thank-you to Danny O’Connor for contributing the artwork for
Confess
. After searching high and low for art I felt could represent Owen, your work stood out above the rest. You have an incredible talent, and your fans (myself included) are lucky to be able to experience it.
As always, a huge thank-you to Johanna Castillo, Ariele Fredman, Judith Curr, Kaitlyn Zafonte, and the entire Atria Books team.
To my agent, Jane Dystel, and the entire Dystel and Goderich team.
To the Weblichs, for always making sure I’m stocked with pictures of Harry, cans of Diet Pepsi, and lots of positive energy. To the CoHorts, for giving me daily reminders as to why I do this in the first place. And to my biggest supporters, who are subjected to ten different versions of every chapter, but never complain: Kay Miles, Kathryn Perez, Chelle Northcutt, Madison Seidler, Karen Lawson, Marion Archer, Jennifer Stiltner, Kristin Phillips-Delcambre, Salie-Benbow Powers, Maryse, and so many others.
To Murphy for being the best AsSISTERnt out there. To Stephanie, for being there from the beginning, as a boss and a best friend. To my mother, sister, husband, children, and everyone else who supports me endlessly and never complains.
To everyone who takes a chance and picks up one of my books, thank you for the opportunity to live my dream.
And of course, a huge thank-you to two of the people I am grateful this career brought into my life: Tarryn Fisher and Vilma Gonzalez. You guys have been my rocks this year.
JEN STERLING
COLLEEN HOOVER
is the #1
New York Times
bestselling author of
Slammed, Point of Retreat, This Girl, Hopeless, Losing Hope, Finding Cinderella, Maybe Someday, Ugly Love,
and
Maybe Not.
She lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. Please visit
ColleenHoover.com
.
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Losing Hope
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Maybe Someday
Ugly Love
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Copyright © 2015 by Colleen Hoover
Artwork created by Danny O’ Connor (aka DOC)
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The Library of Congress has catalogued this book as follows:
Hoover, Colleen.
Confess / by Colleen Hoover. — First Atria paperback edition.
pages ; cm
“ATRIA FICTION ORIGINAL TRADE.”
I. Title.
PS3608.O623C66 2015
813'.6—dc23
2014043627
ISBN 978-1-4767-9145-6
ISBN 978-1-4767-9146-3 (ebook)
Contents
Part One
Prologue: Auburn
Chapter One: Auburn
Chapter Two: Owen
Chapter Three: Auburn
Chapter Four: Owen
Chapter Five: Auburn
Chapter Six: Owen
Chapter Seven: Auburn
Chapter Eight: Owen
Chapter Nine: Auburn
Chapter Ten: Owen
Chapter Eleven: Auburn
Chapter Twelve: Owen
Chapter Thirteen: Auburn
Chapter Fourteen: Owen
Part Two
Chapter Fifteen: Auburn
Chapter Sixteen: Owen
Chapter Seventeen: Auburn
Chapter Eighteen: Owen
Chapter Nineteen: Auburn
Chapter Twenty: Owen
Chapter Twenty-One: Auburn
Chapter Twenty-Two: Owen
Chapter Twenty-Three: Auburn
Chapter Twenty-Four: Owen
Five Years Earlier: Owen
Photographs
Acknowledgments
About Colleen Hoover