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“Maybe you should,” Roland said before kissing her like he wouldn’t stop until June.

Allison had always loved the rain.

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my editor, Michelle Meade, and my agent, Sara Megibow, for their support and invaluable assistance during the writing of The Lucky Ones. I would be lost in the book world without you both.

Special thanks to the designers at MIRA for their beautiful work on my stunning cover. I can’t stop staring at it.

I’m indebted to Dr. Kent A. Kiehl and Dr. Robert D. Hare for their published research on psychopathy. While their books are not easy reads, they were fascinating and informative, and made me very, very nervous.

I’m also deeply indebted to author and neurosurgeon Dr. Henry Marsh for his wonderful memoir Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery.

I would be remiss if I didn’t thank the true muse of The Lucky Ones, the windswept, rocky and terribly Gothic northern Oregon coast. I will be back someday.