Heart Bones

by Colleen Hoover

“Beyah,” he says, pronouncing my name with a long e. “It’s pronounced Bay-uh.”

I added this conversation because every person who read the book as it was being released paused to ask me how to pronounce it. I thought it would be helpful to have someone pronounce it in the book so readers wouldn't be wondering throughout the whole story. I'm not sure I've ever heard the name before, but as I was trying to come up with a name for Beyah, I liked the name Bea, but in my head I kept pronouncing it Beyah instead of Bee, so I changed the spelling.