Meet Me in Manhattan (True Vows)

"What better way is there to prove romance really exists than to
read these books?"

-Carly Phillips, New York Times bestselling author

"Memoir meets romance! In the twenty years I've been penning
romances, this is one of the most novel and exciting ideas I've
encountered in the genre. Take a Vow. It rocks!"

-Tara Janzen, New York Times bestselling
author of Loose and Easy

"An irresistible combination of romantic fantasy and reality that
begins where our beloved romance novels end: TRUE VOWS.
What a scrumptious slice of life!"

-Suzanne Forster, New York Times bestselling author

"The marriage of real-life stories with classic, fictional
romance-an amazing concept."

-Peggy Webb, award-winning author
of sixty romance novels

Judith Arnold

AS A NOVELIST, I'M USED TO MAKING THINGS UP. I invent,
I tell stories, I lie. I create characters who do my bidding. So when
Olivia Rupprecht and Michele Matrisciani approached me on
behalf of HCI Books with the idea of writing a love story based
on actual people, I was hesitant.

Then I learned about Ted Skala and Erika Fredell. Their story
transported me like the very best romance fiction. Two teenagers
deeply in love yet too young to know how to deal with their wildfire emotions extinguish that blazing love ... or try to. Years pass,
they build strong, successful lives for themselves, but a stubborn
ember of their long-ago love refuses to die. Can they fan the
ember back into a flame? If they do, will it burn them and destroy
everything that matters to them now?

I'm enormously grateful to TRUE VOWS Series Developer
Olivia Rupprecht for having given me the opportunity to write
this glorious, passionate story, to TRUE VOWS Series Creator
Michele Matrisciani for her sensitive guidance, support, and allaround brilliance, to Veronica Blake for suggesting to her HCI
colleagues to enter the romance genre, and to Peter Vegso, the
President and Publisher of HCI Books, for his open mindedness
and encouragement as we developed the entirely new concept of "reality-based romance," and most of all, to Ted and Erika Skala
for entrusting their wonderful story to me. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

I love to hear from my readers. You can reach me through my
website, www.juditharnold.com. And I encourage you to visit the
official TRUE VOWS site: www.truevowsbooks.com, to interact
with the couples and novelists, learn the latest news on the TRUE
VOWS line, read about the upcoming books in the series, and
even have the opportunity to tell HCI Books your true love story
for a chance to be the subject of a future TRUE VOWS book.