by Julie Cross
My editor, Brendan Deneen, deserves one of the biggest thanks for the existence of this series. Sometimes I feel like we made a big pot of stone soup, beginning our journey together from basically a one-line premise: A boy witnesses his girlfriend’s murder, accidentally jumps back two years in the past, and tries to prevent her death from occurring two years from then. As we got more and more excited about the project, and as it started to become a book, others began to join our party, tossing more ingredients into the pot. And now it’s finally finished.
Those contributors to the pot of Tempest-series soup include a blend of author friends, publishing people, and other random non-family members: Nicole Sohl, Jessica Preeg, Rachel Kelleher, Tom Dunne, Joe Goldschein, Breia Brissey, Pete Wolverton, Roni Loren, Anne Marie Tallberg, Brittney Kleinfelter, Eileen Longo, Matthew Shear (who recently passed and I know is greatly missed by the wonderful people at St. Martin’s Press), and Beth Revis.
To the Tempest series fans, thanks so much for riding this wild wave with me. I have loved and appreciated all your support, reviews, and feedback. I hope this final installment is everything you wanted it to be. It’s heartbreaking for me to leave Holly and Jackson behind, to leave this story and these characters. I’ve been in this world for nearly four years and I’m attached to it in a way that will probably never be replicated in any future books because it’s my first. But knowing that the series can continue to fall into new hands helps me to see this ending as a new beginning.
ALSO BY JULIE CROSS
Tempest
Vortex
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JULIE CROSS lives in central Illinois with her husband and three children. She never considered writing professionally until May of 2009. Since then, she hasn’t gone a day without writing.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS.
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TIMESTORM. Copyright © 2014 by Julie Cross. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover photograph of man and woman © James Porto
ISBN 978-0-312-56891-7 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-02073-4 (e-book)
e-ISBN 9781250020734
First Edition: February 2014