All right, you've been sufficiently warned. If you're still reading, I'm going to assume you've finished Conviction.

Or you're like my sib who loves spoilers and you don't care that reading this deleted scene might RUIN Conviction for you.

This scene is from the first draft of Conviction. The initial draft of this book was much darker and much heavier than the one I released. Not in terms of what happened, because the actual events were largely unchanged. It was more the "mood" of the story that changed.

In the first version, certain characters were, quite frankly, really unpleasant. Evelyn was downright cruel, and Deacon... Well, Deacon wasn't anything, really. Just a miserable ball of flesh there to serve the plot and little else. Since the events of the book are already a bit on the dark side, this unpleasantness dragged down the entire book in a bad way. And perhaps one of the least pleasant characters was Andy himself.

I knew it was bad when my beta wrote back to tell me, basically, it was very dark, very depressing, and it would be better if I just killed Andy off because he was no longer the character she knew and loved.

Harsh.

Especially because I love Andy. And I have big plans for him...

Now, I didn't change what happened. I really do know what I'm doing, and I have a plan (it's going to be big-huge, I swear). However, I did take that feedback to heart. When you read my books, I want you to experience a range of emotions, but I always want you to end on a positive note. So, to that end, I reworked a few characters, adjusted their general attitude.

So here's a taste of the Andy that might have been...

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