Cut and Run 09 Crash & Burn (50 page)
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Authors: Abigail Roux
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Thank you so much for Reading the Rainbow!
The culmination of this series has been over seven years in the making. If I tried to thank every person who made this ninth and final book possible, I’d run out of pages before I could do the job well. From the people in my life who gave me inspiration for everything from plot to characters, to the readers who picked up this book and flipped past the title page, everyone who’s had a hand in this journey deserves a word of thanks.
Thank you to the readers who’ve stuck with me, and Ty and Zane, from beginning to end. Thank you for trusting me, and thank you for letting me tell you a story.
Thank you to Rachel and Riptide, who gave me a home when I felt like I was at sea. You’re not just my publisher or my editor, you’re my friend. And I can’t stress how important that’s been to me.
Thank you to the handful of people who have the patience to love me day in and day out. You’ve seen me through the highs and lows and I don’t believe I’d be here if it weren’t for your voices in my ears, your faces in my memory, and you in my heart.
To my great-grandmother, who fought ’til her last breath, and spent her days in the shade of her porch with a shotgun across her lap. Her spirit lives on in the Grady family.
To my daddy, whose love of history permeated my brain from a young age and who encouraged me to study what I loved. Without him, and without that horribly boring
senior-level social studies class I had to take for my degree, I don’t believe I ever would have picked up a pencil and started telling stories on paper as I pretended to take notes.
To my granny, my mama, and my baby girl. You’ve each inspired me in ways I cannot tally. Mara Grady is the mother everyone wishes they had, but I’m so lucky because she came from the two most important women in my life. I hope one day my Little Roux will think the same of me.
And finally, I have to acknowledge a man whose name cannot be given. To Squad Leader, who demonstrated to me that men like Ty Grady do exist. They do exist, and the world needs them.
Cut & Run series
Cut & Run (with Madeleine Urban)
Sticks & Stones (with Madeleine Urban)
Fish & Chips (with Madeleine Urban)
Divide & Conquer (with Madeleine Urban)
Armed & Dangerous
Sidewinder series
Part & Parcel (coming soon)
Novels
The Archer
Novellas
A Tale from de Rode
My Brother’s Keeper
Seeing Is Believing
Unrequited
With Madeleine Urban
Caught Running
Love Ahead
Warrior’s Cross
Abigail Roux was born and raised in North Carolina. A past volleyball star who specializes in sarcasm and painful historical accuracy, she currently spends her time coaching high school volleyball and investigating the mysteries of single motherhood. Any spare time is spent living and dying with every Atlanta Braves and Carolina Panthers game of the year. Abigail has a daughter, Little Roux, who is the light of her life, a boxer, four rescued cats who play an ongoing live-action variation of Call of Duty throughout the house, one evil Ragdoll, a certifiable extended family down the road, and a cast of thousands in her head.
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Zane sat on a stool behind the salvaged countertop that graced one side of the first floor of Brick & Mortar Books. He rested his head in one palm, using the other hand to flip the electronic pages on his tablet.
The grand opening had been a few months ago, and they’d had a steady stream of business since then. People were drawn in by the unique façade, by the rich and quirky details of the interior, by the comfortable seating Zane had sprinkled throughout the three stories of new and used books. By the free Wi-Fi.