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For my patient readers, you’ve waited while I wrote this series very slowly I’lacierswith it

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Author’s Note

Special New Release & Bonus Content

Killian wraps up the West Bend Saints series The book can be read as a standalone, although it’s better if you’ve read the others prior to reading Killian, especially because Killian does have spoilers in it for the other books

To celebrate Killian’s release, I’ve included THE ENTIRE SERIES in Killian for a limited time! And if you’ve already read the first three books, don’t worry — I have some new fun content for you, too! Read on, because I have some BONUS EPILOGUES included!

I’ve placed Killian first in the book, so if you’ve read the other books, you don’t have to flip through the book to get to Killian If you haven’t read the other books in the series, you can find the links to each of the other books (in order after Killian) in the table of contents The series order is as follows:

Elias (Book One)

Silas (Book Two)

Luke (Book Three)

Killian (Book Four)

Since I’ve included all of the books, that , so don’t be e or the crazy number of Kindle locations in this file

These are full-length novels, and Killian weighs in at around 80k words, so it’ll end around 30 on your Kindle, if you’re trying to keep track of the pacing The other books range fro around 54, Silas at 77, and Luke at 100

As a fun extra bonus, I’ve also included bonus epilogues for the prior books! Those are marked in the table of contents for easy access If you’ve already read those books, I hope you enjoy seeing what the future has in store for Elias and River, Silas and Tempest, and Luke and Autumn (Spoiler, one of the couples ends up with twins and triplets!)

I know a lot of you have been waiting patiently for Killian, and I hope that you love him as much as I do

Sabrina

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One knock on the door, and ed forever

I’d prepared for that er back when I was eighteen years old, young and naïve and invincible I felt like I’d aged two decades in the past six years

I would age even faster after the knock on the door Every cop’s wife thinks about that ainst the fear that her husband won’t return fro if this would be the time he wouldn’t come back

“Mrs Nelson?”

When I saw the officer in dress unifor in the doorway, I knew all there was to know I didn’t need to hear anything else after those words, even if I could have heard the rest of what he said over the sound of

Adam Nelson 1984-2008 Killed in the line of duty

One sentence to sum up a whole life

One knock on the door, and I was aat twenty-four years old

I hadn’t told Ada the news until after the first trimester

He died not knowing he was a father

It wasn’t until later that I found out everything I knew about Adam had been a lie

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“Shit” I lance up at the clock, wiping th oflate" should be next years' New Years resolution Of course, acquiring organizational skills and eating fewer cupcakes should probably be up there on the priority list too In fact, if I had better organizational skills, I’d write that down on a sticky note or put it in a planner so I re resolutions

“Opal, are you absolutely sure you’ve got things covered?" I ask "I hate to leave you herethe front and back of the store at the same time We could easily shut down early”

Opal rolls her eyes at h the kitchen, headed toward the front of the store My kitchen I bought the bakery a few e to think about this place asbefore this, not even a house, and here I a my own business Cupcakes and Cappuccinos is my store, a combination coffee shop and bakery "It's Monday This place isn’t exactly tee with activity,” she says as she breezes pastbehind her

"I have the Peterson anniversary cake," I call, hangingher to the front "I'll drop the cupcakes off at Chloe's school and then I'll be back to decorate it"

"Take your tione" Opal tsk-tsksaround with a cloth in her hand to clean the ehout the front of the store reading newspapers and typing on their laptops

Opal shakes her head at o of my city roots, the rush-rush-rush of life that people in West Bend, Colorado just don't see moves slower here, and everyone see for this place, perpetually juggling a hundred different things and feeling like I' at all of them

Opal has been here since I bought the bakery She came with it, a carryover from the prior owners She was the only eht it – and not byemployees as well, but she was the only one anted to stay and work for me

I caht of my husband's name, in order to shed my past Within days ofsora fro the authorities Town residents decided that I was a woman to be either hated or pitied

All of the residents except Opal

Opal just shook her head and clucked her tongue, all too aware of the dra in a small town She's a fixture in West Bend, born and raised here, and is probably the ot no business poking their nose in your past,” she’d said “Glass houses and all that Besides, we all got pasts Don’t let it bother you They’ll come around eventually People always do”