Rules of Protection (Tangled in Texas) (Volume 1) (27 page)
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Authors: Alison Bliss
Tags: #witness protection, #Romance, #country life, #Alison Bliss, #romantic comedy, #adventure, #ranch, #romance series, #bird farm, #backwoods, #fish out of water, #contemporary romance, #forced proximity, #FBI, #Texas, #Entangled Edge
Acknowledgments
First and foremost, I’d like to thank my husband and kids for encouraging my passion for writing and supporting me while I pursued this dream. Thank you to my mom, dad, and my sisters, Annita and Amanda, for letting me walk through my stories out loud while dealing with my crazy. To my friends and family, who were also my very first fans: Terry, Bobbie, Shelley, Kristy, and Debbie, for believing in me and offering me moral support when I needed it most.
A big high five goes out to my fantastic critique partners: Heather, Carol, Joy, Sarah, Sam, Renee, Kelly, and the two crazy girls who make up Elizabeth Hayley. Thanks for the encouragement, the brutal editing, and challenging me to be the best writer I can be.
A special shout-out goes to Julie Abston for taking my beautiful author photo, the “chicks” at Chickswagger who welcomed me into their henhouse and took me under their wings, Samanthe Beck for being my first and most awesome Entangled friend (don’t tell the others), and my Pure Bliss Street Team for blindly supporting a debut author in every way imaginable. You guys are the best!
I’d also like to thank my rock star agent, Andrea Somberg, for taking a chance on a new author, guiding me through the crazy world of publishing, and for laughing at all my stupid jokes.
Big thanks to my editors, Theresa Cole and Gwen Hayes, who not only “got” my vision and gave me some truly amazing edits, but also offered moral support in the form of cocktail recipes. You ladies kept me sane…and grammatically correct. Thank you to Fiona Jayde and Kerri-Leigh Grady for my gorgeous cover.
As for Liz and everyone else within my Entangled Publishing family, thank you for all the unwavering support you offered a new writer. All of you were necessary components to making this book the very best it could be and making my dreams a reality. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!
About the Author
As the youngest of five girls, Alison Bliss has never turned down a challenge…or been called by the right name. Her writing career
may
have started out as a dare by one of her sisters, but Alison hasn’t put her pen down since.
She grew up on a small island off the Texas Gulf Coast, where most of her childhood vacations consisted of camping or hunting trips to the deer lease. Although she’ll always be a Texan at heart, Alison currently resides in the Midwest with her Iowa farm-boy husband and their two sons. With so much testosterone in her home, it’s no wonder she writes “girl books.”
Alison is an animal lover, a closet video game enthusiast, and believes the best way to know if someone is your soul mate is by canoeing with them because if you both make it back alive, it’s obviously meant to be. She’s an avid romance reader who enjoys penning the type of books she loves to read most: fun, steamy love stories with heart, heat, laughter, and usually a cowboy or two. As she calls it, “Romance…with a sense of humor.”
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