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Authors: Colleen Hoover

Confess: A Novel (34 page)

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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ALSO BY COLLEEN HOOVER

Slammed

Point of Retreat

This Girl

Hopeless

Losing Hope

Finding Cinderella

Maybe Someday

Ugly Love

Maybe Not

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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

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