Beautiful Disaster (47 page)

Enormous gratitude to Judith Curr at Atria Books for your unwavering support, and to my editor Amy Tannebaum, who has been passionate about this project from the very beginning. Thank you for believing in this story. And thanks to everyone else at Atria who made this happen so quickly, including: Peter Borland, Chris Lloreda, Kimberly Goldstein, Samantha Cohen, Paul Olsewski, Isolde Sauer, and Dana Sloan.

Thank you to Dr. Ross Vanhooser for your invaluable advice, and for believing in my talent before even I knew I had any.

Thank you so much to Maryse and Lily of Maryse.net, and reader Nikki Estep for loving Travis and Abby's story so much, that they made it their mission to share it!

Last, but never least, endless love and appreciation to my darling husband who's infinitely supportive and patient, and loves me even when I'm ignoring him for fictional people. He is my everything, and I wouldn't think of doing any of this without him...I wouldn't want to. It's because of him that I know how to write about intense love. Jeff, thank you so much for being everything that you are.

Photo credit: Trisha Johnson

Jamie McGuire is the
New York Times
best-selling author of four novels:
Providence
,
Requiem
,
Eden
, and
Beautiful Disaster
. McGuire studied radiography at Northern Oklahoma College and Autry Technology Center in Enid, Oklahoma, during which time she wrote her first novel,
Providence
. She and her husband Jeff live with their children just outside Enid, Oklahoma, with four dogs, four horses, and a cat named Rooster.

To learn about Jamie, visit her at
www.jamiemcguire.com
.

 

First published in the USA by Atria Books, A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2012

This edition published by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2012
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