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
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
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 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