Ren and Della: Boxed Set (Ribbon Duet Book 3)

by Pepper Winters

  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