History Literature / Verity

* ReallyGetsAround: Verity certainly wasn't chaste before meeting Jeremy, a fact she proudly flaunts in her autobiography. Jeremy himself also admits that he's recieved blow-jobs from ten different women before meeting Verity when she asks him.

** [[spoiler: However, Verity keeping up the charade for several months proves to be the last straw for Jeremy. When the ruse is revealed thanks to Lowen, Jeremy attacks Verity and actually murders her, with Lowen encouraging him to make it look like an accident.]]

Finanically struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh seemingly recieves the opportunity of a life time when Jeremy Crawford, hsuband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, hires her to complete the remaining books in his wife's succesful series. Due to heavy brain damage sustained in a car accident, Verity is unable to finish the work herself.\\

Shortly after arriving and settling in at the Crwaford home, Lowen goes through Verity's outlines and notes, hoping to find material that will help her emulate Verity's writing. She finds instead a manuscript for Verity's unfinished autobiography, detailing not only what truly happend on the day Verity's daughter died, but also Verity's true self.\\

* HateSink: Verity is obviously intended to be this. Lowen spends several paragraphs seething about what a monster she is, at one point even musing that she'd deserve to die for being such an abusive mother and ManipulativeBitch. Even Verity herself acknowledges in the foreword to her autobiography that anyone reading it will most likely come to despise her for all the things she describes herself saying and doing. [[spoiler: Subverted with TheReveal that the autobiography was merely a writing exercise, with Verity intentionally writing the opposite of what she felt about all the events detailed therein in order to get a better feel for writing from a villainous point of view. The real Verity was every bit the loving mother and wife Jeremy percieved her as... [[AmbiguousSituation maybe]].]]

* ReallyGetsAround: Verity certainly wasn't chaste before meeting Jeremy, a fact she proudly flaunts in her autobiography. Jeremy himself also admits that he's recieved blow-jobs from ten different women before meeting her when she asks him.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Jeremy and Lowen end up killing Verity after Lowen reveals Verity's autobiography to him. Lowen doesn't feel to bad about it, since Verity was a manipulative, jealous ghoul of a woman who faked a disability for years on end.]] [[spoiler: Horrifically subverted when Lowen ends up finding a secret letter from Verity to Jeremy in which she reveals that none of the things she wrote in her autobiography were true: The autobiography was a writing exercise for her upcoming books. Verity intentionally inverted and exaggerated her actions, thoughts and feelings, meaning the real Verity wasn't actualyl the monster Lowen came to believe she was and her and Jeremy murdered and innocent woman.]]

** [[spoiler: After the accident that killed Harper, Jeremy came across Verity's autobiography. Not knowing that it was merely a writing exercise and that none of the things written in it actually reflected what Verity thought and did in real life, he snapped and attempted to kill her by crashing their car with both of them in it. Verity miraculously emerged unscathed, but wss too scared to attempt to explain herself to him, instead pretending to have brain damage.]]

* SympatheticAdulterer: Lowen thinks several times about how no one could really blame Jeremy if he decided to sleep with her, since his wife's condition makes it impossible for him to satisfy his physical needs.

Lowen chooses to keep the manuscript a secret from Jeremy, knowing that its contents would devastate the still grieving father, yet she cannot resist reading it herself and soon realizes how much she could stand to benefit from revaling the truth.

* HateSink: Verity is obviously intended to be this. Lowen spends several paragraphs seething about what a monster she is, at one point even musing that she'd deserve to die for being such an abusive mother and ManipulativeBitch. Even Verity herself acknowledges in the foreword to her autobiography that anyone reading it will msot liely come to despise her for all the things she describes herself saying and doing. [[spoiler: Subverted with TheReveal that the autobiography was merely a writing exercise, with Verity intentionally writing the opposite of what she felt about all the events detailed therein in order to get a better feel for writing from a villainous point of view. The real Verity was every bit the loving mother and wife Jeremy percieved her as... [[AmbiguousSituation maybe]].]]