Powerful stories about hidden truths are not that much hard to find when you have the name of Colleen Hoover in the mind. Hoover has got the style to write such stories with skill and talent that no other author possesses in the current era. The Voss family in the story is perfect but that perfection happens to be a smokescreen only.
From the inside, the family is broken badly and all of them are keeping secrets because they are trying to protect that outward perfection for themselves. The mother is seriously ill and she is kept in the basement while the father has married the former nurse that was attending to the mother. The children are also pretending to be too perfect which is not well suited to their personalities.
Among them is a special case in the form of Merit which Candace Thaxton has narrated with a lot of care. Merit has kept the secrets of her family well protected in her heart and she is interested in collecting trophies. While searching an antique shop, Merit encounters someone who really touches her heart, she gets disappointed when she comes to know that he wasn’t available for her.
Here on the story becomes darker than November 9 and It Ends with Us because Merit is in for a lot of surprises. She wasn’t ready for what was coming to her this time and she has to show the courage in her heart to get this trophy. She has taken many trophies but this is the first one which she is going to earn on her own. She has to succeed, if she fails then she would not be left with anything to fight for.