by Holly Martin
To my family, my mom, my biggest fan, who reads every word I have written a hundred times over and loves it every single time, my dad, my brother Lee and my sister-in-law Julie, for your support, love, encouragement and endless excitement for my stories.
For my twinnie, the gorgeous Aven Ellis for just being my wonderful friend, for your endless support, for cheering me on, for reading my stories and telling me what works and what doesn’t and for keeping me entertained with wonderful stories and pictures of hot men. I love you dearly.
To my friends Gareth, Mandie, Angie, Jac, Verity and Jodie who listen to me talk about my books endlessly and get excited about it every single time.
For Sharon Sant for just being there always and your wonderful friendship.
To my wonderful agent Madeleine Milburn and Hayley Steed for just being amazing and fighting my corner and for your unending patience with my constant questions.
To the lovely Claire Bord for putting up with all my crazy throughout the whole process, for replying to every single email and for listening to me freak out with complete and utter patience. To my new editor Natasha Harding for being so excited about working with me, I’m really looking forward to working with you too. My structural editor Celine Kelly for helping to make this book so much better, my copy editor Rhian for doing such a good job at spotting any issues or typos. Thank you to Kim Nash for the tireless promoting, tweeting and general cheerleading. Thank you to all the other wonderful people at Bookouture; Oliver Rhodes, the editing team and the wonderful designers who created this absolutely gorgeous cover.
To the CASG, the best writing group in the world, you wonderful talented supportive bunch of authors, I feel very blessed to know you all, you guys are the very best.
To the wonderful Bookouture authors for all your encouragement and support.
Thank you to Catherine Packham at Catherine’s Glass and Dean Tothill at Glow-worm Glass Studio who gave me loads of advice about stained glass work, fused glass and everything else I needed to make Rome and Freya’s glass work as accurate as possible.
To Tracey Gatland who patiently answered all my questions about life in the Scilly Isles.
To Cathy Bramley and her husband Tony for giving me loads of advice about astronomy and what exactly I would see through a telescope from the Scilly Isles in July. The scene didn’t make the final cut, but the advice about astral imaging equipment really helped when writing the scene in the observatory.
To anyone who has read my book and taken the time to tell me you’ve enjoyed it or wrote a review, thank you so much.
Thank you, I love you all.
Published by Bookouture
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Copyright © Holly Martin 2017
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ISBN: 978-1-78681-200-1