Happenstance: Part Two (Happenstance #2) (14 page)

Thank you to author Teresa Mummert for reminding me that even though the things that inspire us are not always pretty, that shouldn’t stop us from writing them down and sharing them with others.

Thank you to Autumn Hull for her incredible, never-ending support, and her company, Wordsmith Publicity, for the professional and seamless marketing.

Thanks to Dan Bringham, my former principal, for answering some tough questions about the high school. It was seventeen years ago for me, and although he’s retired, he was eager to help and patient with my questions.

Thank you to Jerry Mann. I remember very vividly the day I sat in front of his desk, and he made me a friendly five-dollar bet that I would look back on my high school years and wish I had them back. He has since passed away. He is one of the only things about high school that I wish we could have back.

Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Technology Center, where she graduated with a degree in radiography.

Her 2012 novel,
Walking Disaster,
debuted at number one on the
New York Times
,
USA Today
, and
Wall Street Journal
best-seller lists. She has also written the internationally best-selling contemporary romance
Beautiful Disaster
, and the Providence trilogy, a young adult paranormal romance. Her latest books include
Red Hill,
an apocalyptic thriller;
A Beautiful Wedding
, a novella; and
Beautiful Oblivion
, the first book in the Maddox Brothers series.

Happenstance: A Novella Series (Part One)
is a
USA Today
best-seller. Please be on the lookout for the third and final installment,
Happenstance: A Novella Series (Part Three)
, and the completed series in a single printed version in January 2015.

Upcoming works include
Apolonia
, a new adult sci-fi romance, on October 1, 2014, and
Beautiful Redemption
, book two in the Maddox Brothers series, due in winter 2014.

Jamie lives on a ranch just outside Enid, Oklahoma, with her three children and husband, Jeff, who is a real, live cowboy. They share their thirty acres with six horses, three dogs, and Rooster the cat.