Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer, is hired by Jeremy Crawford to ghostwrite the final books in his wife Verity’s bestselling series after a car accident leaves her seemingly incapacitated. Lowen moves into the Crawford home to sift through Verity’s office materials and help finish the novels. While there, she dis…
Lowen also becomes emotionally involved with Jeremy, they begin an affair, and she starts to suspect that Verity has been faking her condition—eavesdropping on strange noises and odd behavior. Convinced she’s uncovering the truth, Lowen gives Jeremy the manuscript. He confronts Verity, who finally drops her act and reveals she’s been awake and manipulating everyone, testing Jeremy’s devotion and planning to take their son Crew and escape with her share of everything.
Jeremy, enraged, tries to kill Verity. Lowen intervenes—but not to save Verity so much as to engineer Verity’s death to look like an accident: Jeremy forces Verity to vomit, then suffocates her to make it seem she died in her sleep from inhalation pneumonia. Seven months later, Lowen is pregnant, and she, Jeremy, and Crew are back at the Crawfords’ house to pack up. Lowen finds a letter Verity had hidden under the floorboards—claiming So Be It was a fictional “villain’s perspective” writing exercise, that the twin’s deaths were accidents, and that Jeremy was responsible for the car crash. Lowen destroys it, deciding the truth is less important than the life she’s building.
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