I can’t write proper acknowledgments without a shout-out to my family and friends. To my husband, children, parents, and in-laws, I couldn’t ask for more love and encouragement. Jared, I know you love these books best, and I love you all the more for that . . . especially for being the kind of husband who reads his wife’s books . . . even if that means ignoring her on vacation until he finishes the last forty pages of one. I’m lucky to have you. To my cop-cousin, Ben, thanks for answering all my questions.
Here’s the scary part. Where I list all my friends who’ve been crazy supportive with me as I wrote The Ivy Chronicles and pray that I don’t forget anyone. Sarah MacLean (thanks for always asking the hard questions that get me to the end), Jennifer Armentrout (your input is invaluable), Jay Crownover (thanks for being the one to insist “holy hot teenage boy” toe the dom-line!), and Lindsay Marsh (what would I do without your keen eyes?). Massive thanks and hugs to the rest of my crew: Tera Lynn Childs, Shana Galen, Mary Lindsey, Carrie Ryan, Rachel Vincent, Sarah J. Maas, Tessa Bailey, and Lisa Desrochers. To my bookseller friends at Katy Budget Books and especially bookseller extraordinaire, Crystal Perkins! You guys humble me with all you do for my books. I also want to give a special thanks to super fan Susan for giving me words from her own life to inject into Georgia’s story!
And you. My dear reader. Thank you for taking this journey with me and I hope you’ll follow me through my future endeavors (aka more books!).
Happy reading,
Sophie
About the Author
SOPHIE JORDAN is the internationally and New York Times bestselling author of the Firelight series and Avon romances. When she’s not writing, she spends her time overloading on caffeine (lattes preferred), talking plotlines with anyone who will listen (including her kids), and cramming her DVR with true-crime and reality TV shows.
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THE IVY CHRONICLES
Tease
Foreplay
HISTORICAL ROMANCE
A Good Debutante’s Guide to Ruin
How to Lose a Bride in One Night
The Earl in My Bed (Novella)
Lessons from a Scandalous Bride
Wicked in Your Arms
Wicked Nights With a Lover
In Scandal They Wed
Sins of a Wicked Duke
Surrender to Me
One Night With You
Too Wicked to Tame
Once Upon a Wedding Night
THE FIRELIGHT SERIES
Breathless (Novella)
Hidden
Vanish
Firelight
OTHER FICTION
Uninvited
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Author photograph by Country Park Portraits
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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