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Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us.
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered.
Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
- Print length336 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOct. 26 2021
- Dimensions20.96 x 1.91 x 13.97 cm
- ISBN-101538724731
- ISBN-13978-1538724736
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“Riveting and unexpected. Impossible to put down.”―Claire Contreras, New York Times bestselling author
"This isn't a book, it's a visceral experience."―B.B. Easton, bestselling author
“Verity delivers the grand slam of thriller twists—the holy grail of'what the…?!' moments . . . It lit up my brain."―Washington Post
"If you came here to find a mystery romance book that’ll have you on the edge of your seat (and keep you up at night), add Verity by Colleen Hoover to your cart."―Cosmopolitan
"Unravels a picture-perfect couple’s courtship and marriage in truly twisted—and jaw-dropping—fashion."―Elle magazine
“If you've yet to experience the delight that is reading one of Hoover's novels, we suggest starting with this . . . Prepare for your pulse to race and palms to sweat."―E! News
“The energy and pace in this book are like a fun house at a carnival. It's ever-changing, and just when you think you know what to expect next, Hoover hits you with another turn. Up until the very final page, readers are mining for clues. Just when you thought you figured out the who, what, when, where, and why, it completely changes, leaving you gobsmacked.”―BuzzFeed
"The perfect choice if you're after a gripping read but be warned, its twists and turns may very well keep you up at night."―Refinery29
"Colleen Hoover's romances and contemporary fiction novels . . . grip readers with emotionally charged storylines, unique plotlines, and twists that leave us reeling." ―Business Insider
"Talk about a word-of-mouth of page-turner we’re still not over . . . Cue the seductive mystery that has one of our all-time fave twists. Run, don’t walk.”―The Skimm
"An explosive, sexy thriller full of chilling admissions, incredible twists and turns, and some seriously creepy plotlines. I can honestly say that I’ve never read another thriller quite like it."―BookReporter.com
"Seamlessly blends romance and horror."―New York Post
"Full of suspense with steamy scenes and creepy undertones."―Plymouth Magazine
"Hoover always tells her stories so beautifully . . . [An] ideal holiday gift.”―Houstonia magazine
"Emotionally charged, sinister, evocative, fascinating and very addictive. We read Verity with a knot in our stomachs from the first to last page! What a brilliant read!"―TotallyBooked Blog
"Wow I'm speechless, I don't know where to start with this one. Verity was a captivating, fast paced, twisted, and addictive story."―Read More Sleep Less Blog
"If you’ve read any of our recent book round-ups here on The Everygirl, you know how much our editors love this book. It created quite the chain reaction, and now, those who have not yet read it are in the minority. Obviously, this means it is a great book, but the real reason we can’t stop talking about it is because of the story—it is truly the most shocking book I have ever read. It also started a huge internet book debate about what really happened, so you’ll be wrapped up in this world even after you finish reading."―The EveryGirl
"I recommend this book to everyone I come across!"―Her Campus
"Solidified my love for romantic suspense."―She Reads
"There are genuinely spooky moments that had me squirming, and all sorts of twists and turns."―Business Insider
"If you’re a book lover drawn to dark thrillers, start with the stand-alone page-turner Verity."―Reader's Digest
"You'll stay up all night reading this . . . Hoover expertly combines thriller with romance to test the boundaries of who is telling the truth, and who is lying."―Woman's Day
"What makes Verity so good is that it is both a steamy romance novel as well as a deeply twisted and disturbing psychological thriller, flawlessly wrapped into one story . . . steamy, disturbing, and surprising."―The Mary Sue
"Twisted . . . a thrilling deviation from her typical romance books." ―HelloGiggles
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Product details
- Publisher : Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition (Oct. 26 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1538724731
- ISBN-13 : 978-1538724736
- Item weight : 299 g
- Dimensions : 20.96 x 1.91 x 13.97 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #10 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in Psychological Thrillers (Books)
- #4 in Suspense (Books)
- #14 in Contemporary Romance (Books)
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About the author

Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times and International bestselling author of multiple novels and novellas. She lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. She is the founder of The Bookworm Box, a non-profit book subscription service and bookstore in Sulphur Springs, Texas.
For more information and for a schedule of events, please visit colleenhoover.com.
To contact Colleen and her team (Her team's name is Stephanie), please email hooverink@outlook.com
Customer reviews

Reviewed in Canada on February 23, 2023
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I hadn’t had the opportunity to read Verity until this past weekend when some Twitter friends and I agreed to read it together so we could talk about it after (and boy do I need to talk about this after!) This book was so dark and disturbing!
The first line was top-notch. Like… what an opener! It immediately draws you in and doesn’t let go. It puts you straight into the action and leaves your mind spinning, in this case after just fourteen words. Mind. Blown.
Verity is an example of a story within a story. The main character, Lowen, is an author—and don’t let that cliché fool you. This book was written astonishingly well. Lowen is hired as a co-writer to a hugely famous author, Verity Crawford, who is incapacitated and cannot finish out the remaining three of her six book deal. Lowen must get inside Verity’s head somehow so she can write the last three books as closely to her writing style and authorial voice as possible. To do that, she’s invited to stay at Verity’s house with her husband, Jeremy, and son, Crew, to go through her office and study her notes.
But Lowen finds a manuscript… an autobiography of sorts… and she learns much more about Verity than she ever thought she would—or wanted to. It’s a deeply personal and intimate account of big life events and the things that led up to them. And the more Lowen reads, the more she’s disturbed. And what’s more, she starts experiencing really creepy things around the house that make her question not only Verity’s sanity, but also her own. By the end of the story, I was blown away.
The twists at the end of this book are incredible!
By the time I was finished reading, my jaw was dropped, my eyes were bulging out of their sockets, and I just wanted to talk about it, but it was 2am! I now know what everyone else was talking about when they said this book is bone-chilling and dark. I highlighted so many lines that stuck out, and there’s one in particular in Verity’s biography that will stay with me (but I’m not going to tell you what it is!)
The character voice was strong, the line-level writing was superb, and I was thoroughly disquieted (and I mean that in the best possible way, because I love dark thrillers!)
The ending will have you questioning everything, and I absolutely love books that do that. Stories that make me think about them long after I’ve read the last word on the page.
I absolutely recommend this book to any fellow dark and disturbing thriller lovers. But be forewarned: when I say it’s disturbing… I mean it’s disturbing, especially as a mother. And as someone who lived with a sociopath for almost a decade, there are some eerily familiar feelings I experienced while reading.
Colleen Hoover is a new-to-me author, and I will not hesitate to read more of her books.
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I hate romance novels as they don’t really reflect real life - they are far too convenient - woman meets handsome man, they fall in love and it’s all perfect - and they really undermine the idea that women can live happy fulfilled lives without being in a relationship at all times. Anyway, I hate romance and this is really just a romance with a slightly odd twist to it.
I’m glad it s a short book as it meant I didn’t waste more than a day on it and it’s safe to say I won’t be reading any more “CoHo” books ever again!


My first read from Colleen Hoover, I had heard a lot of praise and hype around this book, and whilst I wouldn't say it was a perfect read, I can certainly understand why it has received such attention. It is also quite apparent that Hoover must have been influenced by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, however, I liked that she was still very much able to make this her own story.
Like Rebecca, this has a gothic feel to it, with a sense of something sinister lurking and a palpable tension throughout the story. Also like Rebecca, it explores themes of love and marriage, jealousy, as well as deceit and justice, and how well you can ever truly know someone.
Whilst the story is told from Lowen's perspective, the book is interspersed throughout with chapters from Verity's autobiography that Lowen is reading, a device which generally works well, and allows the reader an insight into the dark psyche of this now severely impaired woman, and the relationship that existed between Verity and Jeremy.
In Verity, Hoover creates a truly disturbing character, she is obsessive and manipulative, the chapters written from her perspective chilling and seriously messed up. My only criticism of Verity's manuscript is that I felt too much of it was wasted on repetitive erotica scenes between her and Jeremy, and whilst I did understand the relevance of this, I just thought it was overdone. Also readers should be prepared for genuinely horrifying content in these parts - warnings of child abuse.
Reading the manuscript Lowen is increasingly disturbed by it, and the sense of foreboding gradually builds throughout the story, with odd happenings occurring that rouse Lowen's suspicions. I liked however that Lowen has to question herself, is she genuinely seeing things or is she merely paranoid, her state of mind affected by what she has been reading? If she has reason to doubt herself, then certainly as a reader we do, and her very reliability as a narrator does come into question. Is she for instance too influenced by her growing feelings for Jeremy, and what of some of the undeniable parallels between her and Verity? Furthermore, what of Jeremy himself, is he simply the innocent victim in all that has gone on, the kind and caring father, or is there a darker side to him too? Certainly, all these characters are flawed human beings, the question is to what extent are they who they seem to be?
The theme of identity and separating truth from lies is explored even further with regards to writers and the writing process - how much of their own identity do authors use in their characters? Furthermore, where is the line between truth and fiction?
The ending, without giving away spoilers, only raises further questions and causes you to reevaluate everything. Certainly it is not an ending that ties everything off neatly, rather the reader is left to make their own judgement on what they believe to be true.
I do think the last two chapters were rather rushed, and written in a manner designed to be shocking for the sake of it, as opposed to fully and carefully thought through, and as such whilst I overall like what the author was going for here, I just thought it could have been executed a bit more skillfully, as opposed to the slightly clumsy approach that we got.
Overall, whilst certainly flawed, and far-fetched to the point of absurdity at times, this was nevertheless a gripping, albeit often uncomfortable read, and one that after the end, still had me thinking about it.

I'm not going to say that I enjoyed the diary excerpts; they are deeply, deeply disturbing. However, they felt real and whilst I certainly couldn't empathise with the person behind them, they are very good at forcing you to see through her eyes at the world. It is frightening at points and it is easy to get sucked into the fear and the disgust that Lowen is feeling. Characterisations are generally quite well done, although the gratuitous and constant sex became tedious rather quickly. I felt like I was getting to know all of the characters, with all their faults and whilst I wouldn't want to go on holiday with any of them, they definitely felt real. Each and every one of these characters is flawed and each and every one feels utterly real.
It is also a realistic glimpse at the very nature of grief and loss without ever becoming preachy, with all three adult characters grieving for someone close to them in very different ways. The concept of grieving for someone who you don't particularly like all that much is also woven into the narrative quite well, and how that gives a different but no less raw experience. I did however think more could have been done with the child; at times he seemed to be there just for the cuteness factor and his reactions and interpretations of what is going on could have been utilised to a far greater extent. I liked the kid, but that's all that I can say about him. He's in therapy, then he's not in therapy, he doesn't mention the girls and he loves his mother and he's back in therapy. There's no emotional pull with him though, it's all surface platitudes.
A full star gets knocked off however due to the constant use of sex as a blunt implement throughout this novel. It's almost every other page and it got really boring. If it's not Verity being screwed by Jeremy in her diary, it's Lowen thinking about screwing Jeremy or actually screwing Jeremy. I'm no prude and I have no issue with sexual content in books, but the over-reliance on it here really did work against it. I could see that it was part of how Hoover is building Verity's character, but it did very little for me. It's a pity because otherwise I flew through this dark and nasty book at a rate of knots, desperate to find out just what was going on and just as confused and horrified as Lowen.

Here comes the spoiler....
Crew is plain old creepy but always kept in the background. What would have been a nail bitten ending was if he tipped the boat. If instead of his butter knife incident, he could have blamed it on the visitor.
But no. This book is as "shocking" as the lables on orange juice are "vegetarian".
At least here in the UK they feel the need to let buyers know that in this bottle of 100% organically squeezed oranges...that there is NOT a single drop of blood. That's nice of them, if I were a moron.
Not to be so cruel to just one nation... we live in a time when the professionals feel it is necessary to print out instructions on a box of Pop-Tarts!
If you enjoy reading books, but are ironically looking up on Google the vegetarianess of a box of fruit juice- then this book might just be your cuppa!