Draft:Verity (novel)

Verity is a 2018 psychological thriller novel written by American author Colleen Hoover.

The novel was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance in 2019 and won the British Book Award for Pageturner in 2023 and the Lovelybooks Leserpreis for Romance in 2020.

Plot
Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer, accepts an offer from Jeremy Crawford that should not be refused: she must finish the three last books of a sucessful book series of Verity Crawford, Jeremy's wife and a best-selling author who got paralyzed after a car accident. After accepting, Lowen temporarily moves to their house

In the middle of Verity's office, Lowen finds an unfinished manuscript written by the author. After reading it, Lowen realizes that it should not be shared with anyone, since it has multiple pages of alleged confessions, starting on the day where Verity and Jeremy had met for the first time to the suspicious deaths of both of their daughters.

Lowen decides to hide the document from Jeremy, knowing that it would haunt him even more. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy intensify and her suspicion that Verity may not be paralyzed as she appears to be grows, she realizes that Jeremy should read the manuscript before things get out of hand.

Editions
The novel was initially released in Kindle edition on December 7, 2018. Three days later, December 10, 2018, the was released in paperback.

Cinematic Adaptation
It was announced in 2020 that Amazon Studios would adapt this psychological thriller novel, with the screenplay being produced by April Maguire and Will Honley.