title: Losing Hope: A Novel
author:  Colleen Hoover 
description: <span>Colleen Hoover is the author of six<i>New York Times</i>bestselling novels. The SLAMMED series, which includes SLAMMED, POINT OF RETREAT and THIS GIRL. The HOPELESS series, which includes HOPELESS, LOSING HOPE and the free novella FINDING CINDERELLA. Her most recent release is the NYT's bestseller, MAYBE SOMEDAY, which includes links to an original soundtrack by musician Griffin Peterson.</span><br /><span>Her next standalone, UGLY LOVE, is scheduled to release August 5th, 2014.</span><br /><br /><span>You can follow Colleen on Instagram and Twitter @colleenhoover. You can also find her on her blog at colleenhoover.com where she holds a daily book-a-day giveaway, or on her very active Facebook page at facebook.com/authorcolleenhoover where she loves to give away more free stuff when her husband isn't looking.</span>
zlib_text: The Art of Letting Go
  M. C. Brightly
  A Happy Ending’s Resort Series Novella
  
  Acknowledgements
   
  Thank you to my amazing mother who believed in me and made sure I stayed on track and got
  this book done on time.
  A BIG thank you to Barbara Hoover for working your magic and making my book as wonderful
  as possible!
  A special thank you to everyone who has supported me and my dream to be a writer. I’m
  beyond grateful to you all for seeing that age doesn’t determine when you can start chasing your
  dreams.
  Tammi Hart, I can’t thank you enough for being such an awesome BETA reader and working so
  hard to help me make this story perfect!
  I want to thank Colleen Hoover for writing so many amazing stories that are not only amazing
  and highly addictive but also inspiring. After reading Hopeless it has become my number one favorite
  novel, bumping The Fault in The Stars to #2 lol; it inspired me to write Hartley’s story. For that…
  thank you. I can’t wait to finally meet you one day and get my Colleen H