Mistletoe and Mr. Right (16 page)

Meredith Rich, my editor at Bloomsbury Spark—this is our first project together and we already know it won't be our last (!). After seeing how your notes and thoughts and improvements turned this novella into something more than it could have been without you, I couldn't be happier about that fact. Thank you for believing in me!

I also want to thank everyone else at Bloomsbury whom I have yet to “meet” but know worked hard to put this book into reader's hands—cover designers, assistants, formatters, editors—thank you for your hard work. As someone who has done it all herself for over two years, I know how much of your precious time has been given to me.

Thank you to my family, as always, for asking when my next book is coming out, for wanting to know how things are going even when all I do is mumble at you from behind dirty curtains of hair while not looking up from my laptop—even on vacation. To my dear, dear friends and critique partners, Leigh Ann Kopans and Denise Grover Swank, who are involved and much loved, even when they're not so involved or much loved.

Last but never least, thank you, Paul, for cleaning the kitchen when I've let it sit, for making me dinners (that you've sometimes foraged yourself), and for your ever-so-polite reminders that perhaps a shower might be in order. Even I have to admit that you're sometimes right about that.

Not Quite Dead

Not Quite Cold

Going for Broke (
published in
Fifty First Times: A New Adult Anthology)

Broken at Love (USA Today
Bestseller)

By Referral Only

Be My Downfall

Staying On Top

To find out where you can purchase these titles, please visit
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Lyla Payne has been publishing New Adult romance novels for a little over a year, starting with Broken at Love and continuing with the rest of the Whitman University series. She loves telling stories, discovering the little reasons people fall in love, and uncovering hidden truths in the world around us – past and present. In her spare time she cuddles her two dogs, pretends to enjoy exercising so that she can eat as much Chipotle as she wants, and harbors a deep and abiding hope that Zac Efron likes older women. She loves reading, of course, along with movies, traveling, and Irish whiskey. Lyla's hard at work, ALWAYS, and hopes to bring you more Whitman University antics and at least one more Lowcountry Ghost tale before the end of the year.

If you want to know more, please visit
http://lylapayne.com

If you're a fan of Young Adult fiction—science fiction or otherwise—please check out her work that's published under the name Trisha Leigh.
http://trishaleigh.com

Bloomsbury Publishing, London, New Delhi, New York and Sydney

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First published in November 2014
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ISBN 978-1-61963-817-4

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