Wayward: St. Croix Falls Book 1

by Melody Personette

  Acknowledgements

  First of all, a huge thanks to my mom for being my amazing cover designer. I am so thankful that I have a mom who’s an artist and photoshop whiz and always comes through with the best covers for all my books. I’m also so thankful that I have such a cool mom who loves young adult books and this sort of genre and because of that, was able to read this book and give me some super helpful feedback.

  Thank you to Noah for being my alpha reader and reading every single book I write even if it’s not a genre you would normally read in. As always, thanks for listening to me rave and complain (but mostly rave) about this book and for your super helpful advice and feedback.

  Thank you to Gabriella Slade and Madison Guy for the feedback on the first five chapters. Your suggestions gave me a lot of perspective and was very useful in editing this book. Thanks to my awesome beta readers, Sarabeth Creech, Nicole Dust and Janice Verhoog. You’re feedback and thoughts on the story were so, so helpful and I took everything you said under consideration. Sorry about that killer cliffhanger. ;);)

  Thanks to everyone on Instagram and social media (and especially my newsletter subscribers) for the awesome amount of encouragement and excitement about this book. I love this book and these characters so much, and it makes me so happy to see others are excited about it too.

  And last but certainly not least, thank you to my God who gave me this gift of writing and this gift of creativity. Without Him I wouldn’t have this love and passion for writing. Without Him I would have nothing at all. I am so thankful that He gave me such an encouraging family, the time I have to be able to write and the energy and ability to write every day.

  About the Author

  Melody Personette is an author of YA contemporary fantasy and science fiction full of redemption, hope and magic. She’s a tea lover, Jesus follower, big sister to four younger brothers and TV show addict (TVD, Teen Wolf and The 100 are some of her faves). When she’s not writing she’s blogging, taking pictures of books for her bookstagram, plotting or thinking about writing (she’s never not thinking about writing #writerproblems).

  She also has four books published. A YA science fiction duology, a fantasy short story collection and a children’s book and is working on a YA contemporary fantasy series called St. Croix Falls. Find out more about her books at www.melodypersonette.com.

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