The Art of Lainey (36 page)

To the City of St. Louis who took good care of me growing up, and to all the cool ’90s bands whose music coaxed me down from the ledges—I will never stop loving you. To everyone from Wiliker’s Restaurant, for the flour fights, charred quiche, and years of hilarious antics that have crept their way into these pages. To all the amazing alterna-boys I have been lucky enough to know, especially the one who introduced me to Henry Rollins’s spoken word stuff and the one who introduced me to the Roky Erickson story. To
Adam for being “just a guy” and then some. To Evan and Jay for setting the boy-bar impossibly high. When people say Micah is too good to be true, I’m going to tell them about you two.

And finally, to the readers. Always and forever to the readers. In the end, it all comes back to you.

Photo by Kholood Eid

PAULA STOKES
  currently lives in St. Louis, MO. Under the pseudonym Fiona Paul, she is the author of the Secrets of the Eternal Rose trilogy (Penguin). You can visit her online at www.paulastokes.com and follow her on Twitter@pstokesbooks.

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HE ART OF LAINEY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 

Stokes, Paula .

The Art of Lainey  /Paula Stokes.- 1st ed.

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summary: 
Soccer star Lainey Mitchell is gearing up to spend an epic summer with her amazing boyfriend, Jason, when he suddenly breaks up with her—no reasons, no warning, and in public no less! Lainey is more than crushed, but with help from her friend Bianca, she resolves to do whatever it takes to get Jason back.

ISBN 978-0-06-223842-9 

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FIRST EDITION