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Authors: Steph Campbell

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To this
promise
.

That beautiful things
can last, if you let them bend and change with you.

Acknowledgments

Huge
thanks go out to so many people:

First, my husband Chris, thanks for running the show while I write. I literally could not do it without you. Any of it. Love you.

My kids! I love you,
Hailey, Liam, Finnian & Britta. I don’t spend as much time with you as I’d like, but I promise, it’s all
for
you. I’m so honored to be your mom.

To Liz Reinhardt, to call you my best friend seems inadequate, because you’re more like my hetero-life-mate.
Thanks for keeping me
on track when I got sidetracked and just wanted to peruse where to order
sfogliatelle online.
Thanks for annihilating my apostrophes, and schooling me on the oxford comma repeatedly.
I owe you A’s weight in Grappa.
In Italy.
I love you.

To Jolene Perry, who plucked Grounding Quinn out of obscurity back in 2011, when I was a very newly self-published author (before
self-publishing
was accept
able) and became my (and Quinn and Ben’s
)
biggest
cheerleader, writing partner,
fashion consult
ant
,
and friend.
Thank you.

To readers like Fred LeBaron, Kelly Moorhouse,
and
Carly Noonan
, who
not only ‘got’ Quinn, but embraced her from the start. Thank you for your enthusiasm and willingness to see past
her
tough outer-shell
and love her despite her flaws
. I adore you all to pieces!

Thanks to my rock star cover artist, Sarah Hansen who has also become a dear friend and
my
book soul mate.

To Ron Pope, for the title inspiration, and for writing beautiful music and sharing your amazing gift. And special thanks to Blair for making
things happen
!

Big
shout out to my age
nts, Jane Dystel and especially to
the lovely
Lauren Abramo,
both of Dystel and Goderich,
who put up with my inane questions and are some of the smartest people I know!
So lucky to have you in my corner!

Thanks to our favorite traveling mates, Phil, Judy, Chri
s, Ian, Skye, Mark, Susan and Lu-L
u, and, of course, our tour guide Davide, for leaving Chris and I with such incredible memories of Italy that I had to include it in a book.

Last and never least, thank you to
the ladies of FP. M
y cohorts, colleagues, and friends t
hat I am
so
honored to call such. Thanks
for being there every single day to inspire, make me laugh, tell me I’m ridiculous, offer a shoulder, build me up— but always keeping me grounded and keeping things real.

About the Author

Steph Campbell grew up in Southern California, but now calls Southwest Louisiana home. She has one husband, four children and a serious nail polish obsession.

Other Novels by Steph are:

DELICATE (YA)

GROUNDING QUINN (Mature YA)

MY HEART FOR YOURS (co-written with Jolene Perry) New Adult Romance

LENGTHS (co-written with Liz Reinhardt) New Adult Romance

A TOAST TO THE GOOD TIMES (
co-written with Liz Reinhardt
)New Adult Romance

Steph
blogs at stephcampbell.blogspot.com, stop by and say hello!


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