<p>FICTION: Long Short Story, Psychological Thriller, Chick Lit</p><p></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(6, 8, 8, 1)"><em>This is What I Owe You&nbsp;</em></strong><span style="color: rgba(6, 8, 8, 1)">is the story of a young woman who falls into a drug-infused sexual relationship with a man dangerous to her mind and body.</span></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">t I</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">o</strong><strong>"I just got released this afternoon."</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">e you&nbsp;Kristin Hart</strong></p><p><strong>Those were Jake's first words to me. They should have been an ample warning: he was too stupid even to lie. Not fresh out of jail, it turned out, but a psychiatric hospital, which unfortunately roused my interest. We were drinking 7'7's in the bar at a motel by the freeway. I was eager to escape from one oppression and blind to one much worse, ready to bind up my fate with anybody willing to buy me a drink.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>He proceeded to tell me the whole story. How he and his wife had developed a taste for cocaine and snorted it together every night for over a year. How she'd been systematically denying it since his arrest, how everyone believed her, how this drove him to despair.</strong></p>