September 4, 2025 • 9 mins
Uncover the chilling secrets of Verity by Colleen Hoover in this captivating discussion on Mashair Reads 🎙. In this episode, we break down the shocking twists, hidden truths, and psychological tension that make Verity one of Colleen Hoover’s most unforgettable novels. Whether you’re a fan of dark romance, thrillers, or simply love a story that keeps you questioning every character’s motives, this deep dive is for you.
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📚 Expect a mix of detailed summaries, engaging storytelling, and thought-provoking analysis that will make you see Verity in a whole new light. Don’t just read the story — experience it.
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💬 Comment below: Do you think Verity was telling the truth, or was it all manipulation? Let’s start a conversation!
#Verity #ColleenHoover #MashairReads
👉 Listen to the full audiobook discussion on Spotify, and all major streaming platforms:
📚 Expect a mix of detailed summaries, engaging storytelling, and thought-provoking analysis that will make you see Verity in a whole new light. Don’t just read the story — experience it.
✨ If you love podcasts about books, thrilling discussions, and captivating breakdowns, follow so you never miss an episode of Mashair Reads.
💬 Comment below: Do you think Verity was telling the truth, or was it all manipulation? Let’s start a conversation!
#Verity #ColleenHoover #MashairReads
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome to the Explainer. Today, we are diving
headfirst into this psychological maze that is Colleen Hoover's thriller Verity. Seriously,
this story poses a question that's just chilling. What if
you dug up a truth so monstrous you had no
choice but to bury it all over again forever. So
that right there, that's the chilling promise from Verity Crawford herself,
(00:24):
the author at the very center of this whole mess.
And let me tell you it's less of a promise
and more of a warning because the honesty we're about
to dig into, Yeah, it's darker than you could possibly imagine. Okay,
so let's set the scene. We kick things off with
low and Ashley. She's a writer, she's struggling, and she's
totally haunted by her mom's recent death. Then her day
(00:47):
goes from bad to just horrific. She witnesses a brutal,
fatal accident right there on the streets of New York
and she ends up literally spattered with a stranger's blood.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So, yeah, to say Lowen is at rock bottom, that's
putting it mildly. She's facing eviction, she's got crippling writer's block.
She's emotionally just gone, but then out of nowhere, her
agent lands her this meeting. It sounds like a total lifeline.
The catch it's with a man she just met under
(01:21):
the most bizarre and bloody circumstances you could possibly cook up.
And who is this man? None other than Jeremy Crawford,
Verity's husband and jep, you guessed it. He is the
exact same handsome stranger who gave Lowe in his shirt
after that gruesome accident just hours before wild Right. He's
(01:41):
offering her a job to step into his wife's shoes
to become her ghostwriter, because Verity herself can't write anymore
after her own very mysterious accident. So the money is
just it's life changing. But it's not just about the money.
What's really telling here is Jeremy's sheer desperation. He's the
one who pushes her to negotiate for this massive sum
(02:03):
and then he insists she has to move into his
family home in Vermont. He needs her there, digging through
his wife's notes to completely immerse herself in Verity's world
to get the job done. I mean, red flags are
going up all over the place. Right, But for Loen,
the offer is just too good.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
To pass up.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So Loen gets to the Crawford estate and this place
is something else. It's massive, imposing, her mom would have said.
It has a heavy soul, you know, maybe even haunted,
and the vibe is immediately unsettling. She spots these faint
bite marks on Verity's headboard, and then she meets Verity herself,
or what's left of her, a woman who's basically a
(02:39):
ghost in her own house, just sitting there, unseeing, unmoving.
It's creepy, and that unease just keeps building. She starts
digging through the chaos of Verity's office, a room that's
been left completely untouched since the accident. It feels like
she's trespassing on a crime scene. And then that's when
she finds it tucked away. It's not part of the
(03:01):
book series she's supposed to be working on. It's a manuscript,
an unpublished one titled so be it an autobiography. Now
Loen knows she shouldn't read this, it's a total violation
of privacy, but she's also thinking, how else am I
going to do this job? How can I become Verity
Crawford on the page if I don't understand her mind,
(03:21):
So she tells herself it's just research, you know, a
way to tap into Verity's genius. But what she's about
to find in those pages, it's not genius. It's the
confession of a monster. You know, this manuscript it's like
opening a door you can never ever close again. It's
a direct window into Verity's mind. And trust me, the
(03:42):
view is absolutely terrifying. Verity's own words, in her own handwriting,
paints this picture of a woman who isn't just flawed.
She's predatory. She's manipulative, and what's scariest of all, she
knows exactly what she is.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Right from page one. It's a shock to the system.
You've got Jeremy's version of how they met, this sweet
fairy tale romance, but then you read Verity's version in
the manuscript. It's a cold, calculated, predatory hunt. She targeted him,
and believe me, that's just the warm up. The revelations
(04:18):
go from manipulative to straight up monstrous real fast as
Lowen keeps reading, the autobiography just turns into this catalog
of horrors. Verity lays it all out, how she resented
her own twin daughters, Chasten and Harper, because she saw
them as rivals for Jeremy's love. She even describes in
horrifying detail a failed, brutal attempt to self induce a miscarriage,
(04:42):
and then the most chilling part, a successful plot to
murder her own daughter Harper and make it look like
an accident. And according to Verity's manuscript, she can pinpoint
the exact moment her love just curdled into this toxic jealousy.
It all came down to one simple question, asked Jeremy,
do you love them more than me? And he didn't
(05:03):
even hesitate, He said yes. And for Verity, that honest
answer was the ultimate betrayal. It was the thing that
sent her spiraling down a path to tear their family apart.
So while all this is happening, Lowen is falling harder
and harder for Jeremy, and the more she reads, the
more she's convinced Verity isn't just a monster on the page.
(05:25):
She starts to believe Verity is faking this whole catatonic
state and that she's still a danger to their son Crew.
And that's when she makes a decision that changes everything.
She gives the manuscript to Jeremy, so Jeremy reads it.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
He reads the story his wife wrote, the story of
her sick resentment, her jealousy, the cold blooded murder of
their own daughter, and in that moment, the man Loen
has fallen for just shatters. He's gone, and in his
place is someone completely consumed by this righteous and frankly
(06:01):
terrifying rage. And just like that, the horrifying story from
the manuscript explodes into reality. Jeremy confronts Verity, and then
the impossible happens. She speaks the proof she's been faking
it all along. That's what sends him right over the edge.
He attacks her, and in that split second, all Lowe
(06:21):
can see as his future flashing before her eyes. Prison
So to save him, she comes up with a plan,
right there on the spot. They'll stage the murder as
an accident, and just like that, she's an accomplice.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So the nightmare's over right, or at least that's what
they want to believe. They're bound together now, not just
by love, but by a murder. They finally have a
chance to build a new life, a life totally free
of Verity. But here's the thing. About a house built
on secrets. There's always one more hiding in the walls. Okay,
(06:57):
fast forward seven months. Life looks good. Loen is pregnant
with Jeremy's baby.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
They've moved away, started fresh in North Carolina, but they
have to go back to clear out that old Vermont
house one last time.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And while she's packing, tucked away under the floorboards, Loen
finds one final secret from Verity. What she finds is
a letter, a hidden letter from Verity, addressed to Jeremy,
and in it, Verity claims that the entire manuscript, that
horrifying autobiography that started everything, was all fake, a complete
(07:31):
work of fiction. She calls it an exercise in antagonistic journaling,
basically a writing technique she used to get inside the
heads of the villains for her novel. In this letter,
it just shatters everything. It flips the entire story on
its head. So which is it? Was the manuscript the
truth where Verity was a killer?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Or is the letter the truth a version where Jeremy
was the one who became a monster, where he read
her fictional story, believed it, and tried to murder her
in a fit of rage. In this version, Verite wasn't
faking to be manipulative.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
She was faking out of pure, absolute terror of her
own husband. So what does Loan do with this bombshell,
this letter that could change everything? She destroys it, She
tears it into tiny pieces, flushes it down the toilet,
and watches it disappear. And with it, she flushes away
any version of the truth that could destroy the new
(08:24):
life she's building with Jeremy and their baby. She makes
a choice. She chooses her reality. She chooses to believe
the manuscript was the truth, and decides to carry the
weight of this awful, final secret all by herself. And
that that is where the book leaves you hanging with
this central, deeply unsettling question. So who was the real
(08:45):
villain here? Was it the woman who wrote a monstrous story?
Or was it the man who read that story and
made it real? Was the autobiography a confession or was
it just a terrifyingly effective writing exercise. The story's over,
but the question they just hang in the air, forcing
you to pick aside, to decide which twisted version of
the truth you're gonna believe.
All right, welcome to the Explainer. Today, we are diving
headfirst into this psychological maze that is Colleen Hoover's thriller Verity. Seriously,
this story poses a question that's just chilling. What if
you dug up a truth so monstrous you had no
choice but to bury it all over again forever. So
that right there, that's the chilling promise from Verity Crawford herself,
(00:24):
the author at the very center of this whole mess.
And let me tell you it's less of a promise
and more of a warning because the honesty we're about
to dig into, Yeah, it's darker than you could possibly imagine. Okay,
so let's set the scene. We kick things off with
low and Ashley. She's a writer, she's struggling, and she's
totally haunted by her mom's recent death. Then her day
(00:47):
goes from bad to just horrific. She witnesses a brutal,
fatal accident right there on the streets of New York
and she ends up literally spattered with a stranger's blood.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So, yeah, to say Lowen is at rock bottom, that's
putting it mildly. She's facing eviction, she's got crippling writer's block.
She's emotionally just gone, but then out of nowhere, her
agent lands her this meeting. It sounds like a total lifeline.
The catch it's with a man she just met under
(01:21):
the most bizarre and bloody circumstances you could possibly cook up.
And who is this man? None other than Jeremy Crawford,
Verity's husband and jep, you guessed it. He is the
exact same handsome stranger who gave Lowe in his shirt
after that gruesome accident just hours before wild Right. He's
(01:41):
offering her a job to step into his wife's shoes
to become her ghostwriter, because Verity herself can't write anymore
after her own very mysterious accident. So the money is
just it's life changing. But it's not just about the money.
What's really telling here is Jeremy's sheer desperation. He's the
one who pushes her to negotiate for this massive sum
(02:03):
and then he insists she has to move into his
family home in Vermont. He needs her there, digging through
his wife's notes to completely immerse herself in Verity's world
to get the job done. I mean, red flags are
going up all over the place. Right, But for Loen,
the offer is just too good.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
To pass up.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So Loen gets to the Crawford estate and this place
is something else. It's massive, imposing, her mom would have said.
It has a heavy soul, you know, maybe even haunted,
and the vibe is immediately unsettling. She spots these faint
bite marks on Verity's headboard, and then she meets Verity herself,
or what's left of her, a woman who's basically a
(02:39):
ghost in her own house, just sitting there, unseeing, unmoving.
It's creepy, and that unease just keeps building. She starts
digging through the chaos of Verity's office, a room that's
been left completely untouched since the accident. It feels like
she's trespassing on a crime scene. And then that's when
she finds it tucked away. It's not part of the
(03:01):
book series she's supposed to be working on. It's a manuscript,
an unpublished one titled so be it an autobiography. Now
Loen knows she shouldn't read this, it's a total violation
of privacy, but she's also thinking, how else am I
going to do this job? How can I become Verity
Crawford on the page if I don't understand her mind,
(03:21):
So she tells herself it's just research, you know, a
way to tap into Verity's genius. But what she's about
to find in those pages, it's not genius. It's the
confession of a monster. You know, this manuscript it's like
opening a door you can never ever close again. It's
a direct window into Verity's mind. And trust me, the
(03:42):
view is absolutely terrifying. Verity's own words, in her own handwriting,
paints this picture of a woman who isn't just flawed.
She's predatory. She's manipulative, and what's scariest of all, she
knows exactly what she is.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Right from page one. It's a shock to the system.
You've got Jeremy's version of how they met, this sweet
fairy tale romance, but then you read Verity's version in
the manuscript. It's a cold, calculated, predatory hunt. She targeted him,
and believe me, that's just the warm up. The revelations
(04:18):
go from manipulative to straight up monstrous real fast as
Lowen keeps reading, the autobiography just turns into this catalog
of horrors. Verity lays it all out, how she resented
her own twin daughters, Chasten and Harper, because she saw
them as rivals for Jeremy's love. She even describes in
horrifying detail a failed, brutal attempt to self induce a miscarriage,
(04:42):
and then the most chilling part, a successful plot to
murder her own daughter Harper and make it look like
an accident. And according to Verity's manuscript, she can pinpoint
the exact moment her love just curdled into this toxic jealousy.
It all came down to one simple question, asked Jeremy,
do you love them more than me? And he didn't
(05:03):
even hesitate, He said yes. And for Verity, that honest
answer was the ultimate betrayal. It was the thing that
sent her spiraling down a path to tear their family apart.
So while all this is happening, Lowen is falling harder
and harder for Jeremy, and the more she reads, the
more she's convinced Verity isn't just a monster on the page.
(05:25):
She starts to believe Verity is faking this whole catatonic
state and that she's still a danger to their son Crew.
And that's when she makes a decision that changes everything.
She gives the manuscript to Jeremy, so Jeremy reads it.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
He reads the story his wife wrote, the story of
her sick resentment, her jealousy, the cold blooded murder of
their own daughter, and in that moment, the man Loen
has fallen for just shatters. He's gone, and in his
place is someone completely consumed by this righteous and frankly
(06:01):
terrifying rage. And just like that, the horrifying story from
the manuscript explodes into reality. Jeremy confronts Verity, and then
the impossible happens. She speaks the proof she's been faking
it all along. That's what sends him right over the edge.
He attacks her, and in that split second, all Lowe
(06:21):
can see as his future flashing before her eyes. Prison
So to save him, she comes up with a plan,
right there on the spot. They'll stage the murder as
an accident, and just like that, she's an accomplice.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So the nightmare's over right, or at least that's what
they want to believe. They're bound together now, not just
by love, but by a murder. They finally have a
chance to build a new life, a life totally free
of Verity. But here's the thing. About a house built
on secrets. There's always one more hiding in the walls. Okay,
(06:57):
fast forward seven months. Life looks good. Loen is pregnant
with Jeremy's baby.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
They've moved away, started fresh in North Carolina, but they
have to go back to clear out that old Vermont
house one last time.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And while she's packing, tucked away under the floorboards, Loen
finds one final secret from Verity. What she finds is
a letter, a hidden letter from Verity, addressed to Jeremy,
and in it, Verity claims that the entire manuscript, that
horrifying autobiography that started everything, was all fake, a complete
(07:31):
work of fiction. She calls it an exercise in antagonistic journaling,
basically a writing technique she used to get inside the
heads of the villains for her novel. In this letter,
it just shatters everything. It flips the entire story on
its head. So which is it? Was the manuscript the
truth where Verity was a killer?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Or is the letter the truth a version where Jeremy
was the one who became a monster, where he read
her fictional story, believed it, and tried to murder her
in a fit of rage. In this version, Verite wasn't
faking to be manipulative.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
She was faking out of pure, absolute terror of her
own husband. So what does Loan do with this bombshell,
this letter that could change everything? She destroys it, She
tears it into tiny pieces, flushes it down the toilet,
and watches it disappear. And with it, she flushes away
any version of the truth that could destroy the new
(08:24):
life she's building with Jeremy and their baby. She makes
a choice. She chooses her reality. She chooses to believe
the manuscript was the truth, and decides to carry the
weight of this awful, final secret all by herself. And
that that is where the book leaves you hanging with
this central, deeply unsettling question. So who was the real
(08:45):
villain here? Was it the woman who wrote a monstrous story?
Or was it the man who read that story and
made it real? Was the autobiography a confession or was
it just a terrifyingly effective writing exercise. The story's over,
but the question they just hang in the air, forcing
you to pick aside, to decide which twisted version of
the truth you're gonna believe.
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