Verity – Colleen Hoover

A struggling author accepts the job offer of a lifetime: finishing the last three books in a successful series following an injury to the original creator on behalf of her publisher and husband.  She moves into the family’s home, hoping to find outlines or character sketches in the wife’s office that will help her complete the next three books.  Instead, she finds herself falling for the husband after finding a manuscript for the wife’s autobiography.  Troubled by her situation, the author tries to navigate her feeling of dread while falling hard for the husband.

Verity is my first exposure to Colleen Hoover’s work, with the majority of it seemingly falling in the romance genre.  She spins a compelling, if somewhat unbelievable, tale with plenty of twists and turns to keep the reader engaged.  If there’s more like this in her backlog, I’ll be sure to try and track it down.