Confess

Zusatztext “Colleen Hoover has created another unforgettable story exploring the human condition and! in this case! how much of themselves a person is willing to sacrifice for the ones they love. Her trademark sense of humour! her familiar literary techniques! the very recognisable tone of her characters! are all there to pull us in and leave us incapable of putting this story down.” Informationen zum Autor Colleen Hoover is the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of more than twenty-three novels, including It Starts with Us ,  It Ends with Us , All Your Perfects , Ugly Love , and Verity . Colleen lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. For more information, please visit ColleenHoover.com. Klappentext From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, a novel about risking everything for love—and finding your heart somewhere between the truth and lies. At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything important to her. In her fight to rebuild her shattered life, she has her goals in sight and there is no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn’t expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry. For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping a major secret from coming out. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it.To save their relationship, all Owen needs to do is confess. But in this case, the confession could be much more destructive than the actual sin.Confess CHAPTER ONE Auburn I squirm in my chair as soon as he tells me his hourly rate. There’s no way I can afford this with my income. “Do you work on a sliding-scale basis?” I ask him. The wrinkles around his mouth become more prominent as he attempts to keep from frowning. He folds his arms over the mahogany desk and clasps his hands together, pressing the pads of his thumbs against one other. “Auburn, what you’re asking me to do is going to cost money.” No shit. He leans back in his chair, pulling his hands to his chest and resting them on his stomach. “Lawyers are like weddings. You get what you pay for.” I fail to tell him what a horrible analogy that is. Instead, I glance down at the business card in my hand. He came highly recommended and I knew it was going to be expensive, but I had no idea it would be this expensive. I’ll need a second job. Maybe even a third one. Actually, I’m going to have to rob a damn bank. “And there’s no guarantee the judge will rule in my favor?” “The only promise I can make is that I’ll do everything I can to ensure the judge does rule in your favor. According to the paperwork that was filed back in Portland, you’ve put yourself in a tough spot. This will take time.” “All I have is time,” I mumble. “I’ll be back as soon as I get my first paycheck.” He has me set up an appointment through his secretary and then sends me on my way, back out into the Texas heat. I’ve been living here all of three weeks and so far it’s everything I thought it would be: hot, humid, and lonely. I grew up in Portland, Oregon, and assumed I would spend the rest of my life there. I visited Texas once when I was fifteen and although that trip wasn’t a pleasant one, I wouldn’t take back a single second of it. Unlike now, when I’d do anything to get back to Portland. I pull my sunglasses down over my eyes and begin heading in the direction of my apartment. Living in downtown Dallas is nothing like living in downtown Portland. At least in Portland, I ...

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Colleen Hoover

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• Authors: Colleen Hoover
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.02.2015
• EAN: 9781476791456
• ISBN: 978-1-4767-9145-6
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Atria Books
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature