Pure Corruption Duet
Ruin & Rule
Sin & Suffer
Indebted Series
Debt Inheritance
First Debt
Second Debt
Third Debt
Fourth Debt
Final Debt
Indebted Epilogue
Monsters in the Dark Trilogy
Tears of Tess
Quintessentially Q
Twisted Together
Je Suis a Toi
Standalones
Destroyed
Unseen Messages
Can’t Touch This
PLAYLIST
John Legend – Love Me Now
Selena Gomez & Marshmello – Wolves
Pink – What About Us
Selena Gomez - Back To You
Imagine Dragons - Nothing Left To Say
Imagine Dragons - Not Today
All of the Stars - Ed Sheeran
Charlie Puth - Kiss Me
Lana Del Rey – I still love him
Nothing Like Us - Justin Beiber
Calum Scott - If Our Love Is Wrong
Tom Odell - Grow Old with Me
I Found You - Kina Grannis & Imaginary Future
Calum Scott, Leona Lewis - You Are The Reason
Behind Blue Eyes – Limp Bizkit
Photograph – Ed Sheeran
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Boy & His Ribbon was the easiest book I’ve ever written.
The Girl & Her Ren was the hardest.
As mentioned in the ‘Note to the Reader,’ I always knew Ren’s fate the moment he popped into my head and first told me his story, but it didn’t mean I was comfortable with it, or brave enough to go through with it.
Almost daily, I’d message beta readers asking if I was doing the right thing. And every night, I’d wake in a panic wondering how this duet would be received.
However, I had no choice to do the ending Ren intended.
This was never a romance.
It was a life story, and with life comes death—just like Della said.
Saying that, I leaned on beta readers very heavily in this book. I think I wrote close to 210,000 words and ended up deleting 55,000 of them.
Entire scenes were axed. Entire plot points erased. It wasn’t easy, but I hope it’s made a better book for being ruthless.
I want to thank my husband for allowing me to sit on my butt for twelve hours a day to finish this—it’s been two months of relying on him to feed the horses, cook, and clean. He’s a rock star.
I want to thank Heather Pollock for being invaluable with her advice and being online at all hours of the day to read chapters and keep me from jumping off the cliff.
I want to thank Melissa Crump for being so diligent, kind, and helpful and incredibly fast in her feedback.
I want to thank Tamicka Birch for giving me her honest opinion when I ruined the book and told her the ending and made her read the epilogue first.
I want to thank Melissa Staley, Vickie Leaf, Rochelle Kroesen, Yaya, Julie Lis, Heather Peiffer, Nicole Hartney, and Chanpreet Singh for their invaluable, kind critique.
I want to thank Jenny Sims and Tiffany Landers for their editing / proofreading, and for turning it around so fast.
I want to thank Will Watt and Hayden Bishop for narrating such excellent audio and making me fall in love with my characters even more.
I want to thank Nina Grinstead and the girls at Social Butterfly for helping with promo.
And finally, but most importantly, I want to thank you, the reader, for allowing me to hurt you with this story.
I hope you enjoyed it, despite the pain.
Xx00xx
Pepper
Ren and Della: Boxed Set (Ribbon Duet Book 3) Page 92
