by Leah Mercer
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A big thank you to everyone at Amazon Publishing for their continued support: Emilie Marneur, Sammia Hamer, Sana Chebaro and Bekah Graham have all been wonderful throughout the past few years. I couldn’t ask for a better team of people to have around me! I owe huge thanks to my agent, Madeleine Milburn, who has read multiple drafts of this project, and to my editor, Sophie Wilson, whose encouragement and thoughtful input have been instrumental in shaping this into a book I’m proud of.
And, as always, to my husband: thank you – for being there and for bringing coffee. And to my son: thanks for sitting on my lap and providing lots of cuddles in the early morning and at night. I love you both.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leah Mercer was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. By the age of thirteen, she’d finished her first novel and received very encouraging rejections from publishers.
Leah put writing on hold to focus on athletics, achieving provincial records and becoming a Canadian university champion in the 4 × 400-metre relay. After getting her BA, she turned to writing again, earning a masters in journalism. A few years later she left Canada and settled in London, where she now lives with her husband and their young son.
Leah also writes under the name Talli Roland, and her books have been shortlisted at the UK’s Festival of Romance.