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SIGNED GIVEAWAY & EXCERPT — CONFESS by Colleen Hoover

SIGNED GIVEAWAY & EXCERPT — CONFESS by Colleen Hoover

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Woohoo!!! Check this out!!

As many of you know, Colleen Hoover is one of my most favorite authors of all-time. I’ve literally loved every single book she’s written and her upcoming standalone, CONFESS, is another winner!! Exquisitely heart-wrenching and absolutely unputdownable, this is a must-read book of the year! It’ll be released on March 10th so be sure to pre-order your copy. This is a book that you will want to get your hands on the minute it goes live! My full review will be coming soon.

But today, I have an exclusive excerpt for you from the prologue AND a special signed giveaway!!
So scroll down and check it out 😀

— SYNOPSIS —


From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a new 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.

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— EXCERPT —

He loosens his grip from around me and makes a tremendous effort to roll toward me so that we’re facing each other. One could argue that his eyes are hazel, but they aren’t. They are layers of greens and browns, touching but never blending, creating the most intense, define pair of eyes that have ever looked in my direction. Eyes that were once the brightest part of him but are now too defeated by an untimely fate that is slowly draining the color right out of him.

“I’m referring specifically to how we’re both so pissed at Death for being such a greedy bastard. But I guess I’m also referring to our parents, for not understanding this. For not allowing me to have the one and only thing I want here with me.”

He’s right. I’m definitely pissed about both of those things. But we’ve been over it enough times in the last few days to know that we lost and they won. Right now I just want to focus on him and soak up every last ounce of his presence while I still have it.

“You said you have so many things to thank me for. What’s the next one?”

He smiles and brings his hand up to my face. His thumb brushes over my lips and it feels as if my heart lunges toward him in a desperate attempt to remain here while my empty shell is forced to fly back to Portland. “I want to thank you for letting me be your first,” he says. “And for being mine.”

His smiles briefly transforms him from a sixteen-year-old boy on his deathbed into a handsome, vibrant, full-of-life teenagy boy who is thinking about the first time he had sex.

His words, and his own reaction to his words, force an embarrassed smile to cross my face as I think back to that night. It was before we knew he would be moving back to Texas. We knew his prognosis at that point and we were still trying to accept it. We spent an entire evening discussing all the things we could have experience together if we had a possibility of forever. Traveling, marriage, kids (including what we would have named them), all the places we would have lived, and of course, sex.

We predicted that we would have had a phenomenal sex life, if given the change. Our sex life would have been the envy of all our friends. We would have made love every morning before we left for work and every night before we went to bed and sometimes in between.

We laughed about it, but the conversation soon grew quiet as we both realized that this was the one aspect of our relationship that we still had control over. Everything else about the future, we had no voice in, but we could possible have this one private thing that death could never take from us.

We didn’t even discuss it. We didn’t have to. As soon as he looked at me and I saw my own thoughts mirrored in his eyes, we began kissing and didn’t stop. We kissed while we undressed, we kissed while we touched, we kissed while we cried. We kissed until we were finished, and even then, we continued to kiss in celebration of the fact that we had won this one small battle against life and death and time. And we were still kissing when he held me afterward and told me he loved me.

Just like he’s holding and kissing me now.

— SIGNED GIVEAWAY —

Giveaway sponsored by publishers.
Open to anyone with access to a US/CA address to ship their prize to.
Void where prohibited by law. Must be over 18 to enter.
1 winner will a signed copy of Confess.

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Comments

  6. I cannot wait to read this book. I have fallen in love with Colleen’s books. I just can’t get enough! I got to meet her at a book signing in Dayton, OH along with Jamie McGuire and Abby Glines. OMG, they are just as adorable in person as they are online. I would love to win this book so I can add it to my collection. Thank you for this great giveaway!!

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  16. CONFESSION: I CAN’T WAIT FOR CONFESS!!! ♥ OMG. I’m so excited and so ready for ALL. THE. FEELS.! Thanks so much for a chance! 🙂

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  27. I am so intrigued by the concept behind this book. I cannot wait. Not to mention it is top tier book porn. A visual feast. Thanks Aestas.

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  33. So excited for this book to come out! Cannot wait to read it! Love Colleen Hoover! I’m sure this will be nothing less than amazing!!!

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  36. Thanks for the chance! I have NEVER been disappointed by a CoHo book and I would LOVE to have this baby on my bookshelf 🙂

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  44. I’ve heard that this book is phenomenal! I would love to win anything by Colleeen! Thanks for the giveaway! Fingers crossed!

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  50. LOVE the excerpt!

    Awesome author!

    I have a CAnadian address but rafflecopter might show my location outside CAnada because I’m doing a semester abroad

    thank you so very much 🙂

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  59. I haven’t read this one but I have read all of her other books and absolutely <3 Colleen Hoover. She is one author whose books you just automatically buy.

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  62. I have not read Confess yet. I’ve only read Hopeless and Ugly Love so far and I enjoyed them both. Thanks for the giveaway chance! =)

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  69. I’ve read a few of Colleen Hoover’s books and have absolutely loved them!! I honestly can’t wait to read Confess when it releases. I’m sure it’s as amazing as you say it is. 😀

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  77. Thank you for the chance to win. I love reading this blog as the recommendations have led me to read some pretty amazing books. I cannot wait to read Confess!

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  94. I don’t know if I’m going to make it through this book. I have cried through every single one of these excerpts! Colleen Hoover really knows how to pull on m heartstrings! CAN”T WAIT!!

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  95. Yay! another one from CoHo. I love her books, I cannot wait for this one, sounds like another rollecoster ride of feels yeah?

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  97. Can’t wait for the book to come out so I can read it, I know it will be a good read! Thanks for the chance!! 🙂

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  100. I haven’t read a book by Colleen Hoover in a while. But I love the ones I have read. Confess sound like an awesome book I should read asap. =)

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  102. Thank you for the awesome giveaway. I personally haven’t read any Colleen Hoover books just yet but I have heard many good review on them.

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  106. I completed all parts on the Giveaway, except for the , share. I don’t share for personal reasons. But that doesn’t stop me from loving the book. I can’t wait to read, Confess:-)

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  111. Man, can’t wait to read this book! Just these excerpts are tearing my heart out, I can only imagine what the rest of the book is going to do!

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  135. I can’t believe the odds of this giveaway! So many people are interested in this book and all the bloggers involved. Congrats to the blogs! Thanks for the opportunity!

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  146. I can’t wait to read Confess! I already know I love it, because I love every single thing Colleen Hoover writes! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  157. I haven’t read this book yet but I am looking forward to it. Thank you for your giveaway and for everything you do for your readers.

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  159. I’m so freaking excited for this! I love CoHo and all her works and I’m so sure she won’t disappoint with this one!

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  160. This is a great opportunity to have this book and could read it … I will really like to read this great book….
    Thanks 😉

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  172. I can’t wait for this book. I have all her books signed. Need to add to the collection. Thanks for the chance.

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  174. Cannot wait to read her latest book. A new tissue box has been replaced on my bedside because I know she has written another “tug at your heart” book.

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  183. I Keep reading the excerpts and it makes me more and more interested to read this book! I can not wait to its release!

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  191. Ever since I saw that beautiful cover, I knew that I couldn’t wait to read this book! Thank you kindly for the chance <3

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  198. I love everything about Colleen Hoover, from her beautiful heart and her awesome sence of humor to every book she has written. I can’t wait to read this. I would love a signed copy. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity.

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  207. So excited about the new Colleen Hoover book. I will read anything with her name on it, and I seriously have. Cannot wait for this one

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  209. This is basically my first time entering giveaway contests like this and I’m kinda sorta uh no I’m REALLY, DESPERATELY hoping to win considering Colleen Hoover is one of the best authors ever lived. This would make my whole year. Please pick me.

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  222. Looking forward to reading Colleen’s new book.
    Bummed that I cannot enter the giveaway as I live in Australia.

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  223. As always thanks for the opportunity!!! I love your blog it is totally awesome, and I have read some wonderful books thxs to you. <3

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  228. I LOVE LOVE LOVE CoHo and am so excited about Confess. I definitely have a spot saved for it on my bookshelf. Thanks for the giveaway and fingers crossed for the W.I.N.!

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