Verity May 2026

4.5/5 stars (Deducting half a star because I’ll never look at a manuscript drawer the same way again).

If you want a cozy romance, skip this. If you want to be scared of a woman in a wheelchair and question the sanity of everyone involved, run to your nearest bookstore. Verity

Verity is not for the faint of heart. It contains graphic violence, child endangerment, and explicit sexual content used as a tool of manipulation. Some readers find the shock value gratuitous. Verity is not for the faint of heart

The catch? Lowen has to move into the Crawford estate to sift through Verity’s chaotic office notes. The catch

We all know her for the heart-wrenching romances ( It Ends With Us ) and emotional young adult dramas. But with Verity , Hoover pulls the rug out from under us, dives headfirst into the psychological thriller genre, and doesn’t come up for air until the very last page.