Heartless
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She smiled into his eyes, and the light of the song filled her to overflowing.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I cannot thank my mother, Jill Stengl, enough for the hours of critiques and brainstorming sessions she put into helping me polish this story into the best it could be. You, Mummy, went above and beyond the call of duty.
Thanks to Erin Hodge, Esther Shaver, Paula Pruden-Macha, and Edward Schmidt, all of whom read this book at different drafts and gave me honest opinions. What a blessing it is to have such friends!
So much thanks to Kim Vogel Sawyer, Jill Eileen Smith, and Elizabeth Goddard for giving this young writer a boost when she needed it.
Thank you to the rest of you who read it for fun: Peter, Tom, Jim, Ben, Abbey, Debbie, Laura, Hannah, April . . . If I’ve forgotten one of you, please consider your name inserted here with gratitude. All of you were great encouragements.
And I can’t forget to mention my agent, Rachel Zurakowski, who believed in me and this story from the beginning. You are a superhero, Rachel.
The team at Bethany House Publishers has been fantastic through every step of this process. This has been a wonderful experience that I will never forget. Thanks to all of you!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anne Elisabeth Stengl makes her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she enjoys her profession as an art teacher, giving private lessons from her personal studio and teaching group classes at the Apex Learning Center. She studied illustration at Grace College and English literature at Campbell University. Heartless is her debut novel.
Table of Contents
COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR