by Alexa Riley
Acknowledgements
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Once again, thank you to Carina Press for taking a chance on the hot mess that is Alexa Riley…. Especially the ladies in the marketing department! You guys always made us feel like celebrities! Big hugs to our editor Angela James! You pushed us to be our best, and although we complained, we secretly love you for it. Thank you to our agent Laura Bradford for always making us laugh…and for all the food pics you post on Twitter. They give us life. Thank you to our publicist Neda Amini at Ardent Prose for always getting our name out there, and telling everyone how great we are.
Huge thank you to our beta readers, Gia Paar and Polly Matthews. Your words of encouragement and excitement helped so much…but pointing out errors gets you the non-sprinkled donuts.
To our powerhouse entourage, Jeanette, Jen, and Eagle, we couldn’t live without you guys and we owe you our first born. Literally, take them. J. Peanut Butter Shawty, you make us shine like the dime pieces we are, and we will literally never do a signing without you. We love you as much as you love your hoops. Jen, you’ve been a devoted mentor and friend for reasons we still can’t understand. Seriously, why do you hang out with us? Thank you for giving us the vault and pretty face creams. Eagle, you’ve been the backbone of AR since way before day one. You’re our number one ride or die OG, and you can never leave us. No matter how hard you try. Thank you for believing in us.
And as always, thank you to our husbands. You’ve watched us work, worry, and whine and most of the time you’ve been okay with it. Thank you both for believing that the two of us could do anything, and helping us make that possible. You’ve supported us through it all and even though we neglected the laundry, dinner, the kids, you guys…you both still manage to make us feel like we can conquer the world. We promise to make it up to you on a beach somewhere!
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ISBN-13: 9781488022678
His Alone
Copyright © 2017 by Alexa Riley LLC
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