Bloom (26 page)
Authors: Elizabeth O'Roark
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Maura Pierce seems to have everything – a bright future, a trust fund and a boyfriend who can’t wait to settle down. It almost seems like enough until Nate Sullivan comes home. Nate – her childhood best friend, her first love. The boy who left without a trace one night and broke her heart. When their attraction threatens the future she and her parents have so carefully crafted, loyalties will be tested and secrets will be uncovered. Giving in may cost her everything. But how do you resist the only thing you’ve ever really wanted?
Acknowledgments
Every book I
end up publishing begins with the following event: a text from Katie Meyer. Without her encouragement and enthusiasm – usually delivered by text sometime around 1 a.m. – nothing I write would see the light of day. Katie, you do way too much for everyone, but I selfishly will continue to ask you to do way too much for me because you’re so good at it.
Many thanks to my amazing beta readers, who somehow manage to let me know what doesn’t work without making me want to rock in fetal position: the aforementioned Katie, Nancy Coleman, Kate French, Carol Ann Garner, Rachel McMillan, and Amy Meyer. If this book is even vaguely enjoyable, it’s thanks to your amazing suggestions and tweaks to the plot.
Thanks to my mother, Cynthia Garner, who edited everything up to page 184 (because I just can’t bring myself to let her read the sex scenes), Alisha at Damonza for my beautiful cover, and Ben at Damonza for formatting.
To Ivonne Senn, whose review and encouragement finally helped me push this baby from the nest. If I ever need a German translation, you’re my girl.
To Meadow DeVor, for laughing at me two years ago when I told her writing a book was “too hard”.
Thank you many times over to all the amazing people who gave “Undertow” a chance and reviewed it on Amazon and Goodreads.
And, of course, a million thanks to the people I go running to the second anything good or bad happens — Deanna, Diane, Sallye and Katie (there you are
again
). I’m not sure why you let me sit at your lunch table, but I’m very grateful.
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Cover Design and Formatting: Damonza
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Bloom
Copyright © 2014 Elizabeth O’Roark
ISBN: 978-0-989135-1-8
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This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.