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“Real, raw, magnificent—Before I Let Go is the beautiful angst I love to read.” —Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that…

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2 authors picked Before I Let Go as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book felt like my life! I felt the gamut of emotions right there with the main characters--anger, sorrow, jealousy, regret, revenge.

Kennedy Ryan is unafraid of making her characters go through hell.

Before I Let Go is maybe one of the hardest, rarest tropes in romance: ex-spouses sharing custody and running a business and working through their own mistakes and the heartache they caused each other. It’s akin to marriage in trouble, but in this case, the marriage isn’t in trouble: it’s in broken pieces on the floor.

At the outset, it seems irretrievable, but slowly, oh so slowly, with care and attention to a thousand tiny details that make this ring heartbreakingly then heartwarmingly true, we see these characters come…

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