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“An origarin spreads across his face “I can’t wait to see it”

The air-conditioning kicks on overhead with a loud ru cold air down on us A dusty, round clock ticks overhead 7:44 pm Two minutes faster than the watch on my wrist But I don’t need to count minutes or hours or days—not anyer a threat but a pros to coments

This book would not exist without the help of so many people, to whos, for being my inspiration, ht as long as you’re at s fa my dreams, and especiallyeek

To ave up on this book or onwith everyone else at KT Literary

To Wendy McClure and everyone at Albert Whit it even better, and then sharing it with the world

To Rachel Searles, who helped ure out this book’s plot at Panera and over many emails; Cortney Pearson, who read each chapter the second I finished it and cheered for ure out a tricky plot point and alwaysand helped h the years: Susan Adrian, Karen Akins, Riley Edgewood, Dana Elmendorf, Amaris Glass, Jessica Love, Kathryn Rose, and Krista Van Dolzer

ToElena more authentic: Nancy Unruh Berumen and Aline Strickler; with additional thanks to Zoraida Córdova and Mónica Bustaner, who answered some of my questions

To everyone who has followed me on my path to publication and offeredthe way—I truly appreciate all of you

And finally to all of the readers and bloggers who take the time to readan author the best job in the entire world