My Life in Shambles(99)

I need to thank my beta readers, Sarah Sentz, Heather Pollock, Sarah Symonds, Becky Barney, Renery Gatpayat, Imani Blake, Pavlina Michou and Nina Decker. Thank you for all your help with this, it was invaluable! I especially want to thank the always lovely L.H. Cosway for helping me with all to do with Ireland (in case you didn’t know, she’s Irish and also one of my favorite authors), as well as Marika Nespoli. For my MS research, Dan Campbell you are an inspiration, thank you and Casey for reading!

I have the world’s best bookstagram team too (you know who you are!) and seriously, don’t bookstagrammers and bloggers make an author’s world go round? I sure think so! What you do is so important and special to us!

I’ll also thank the usual suspects: Sandra Cortez, K.A. Tucker and R.K Lilley for your hand-holding, Nina Grinstead, Chanpreet Singh, and everyone at Social Butterfly PR. Nina, you are my rockstar, don’t forget it.

Hang Le, this cover is probably my favorite and I have no idea how we are going to top it (but I am game to try!). Laura Helseth, I’m not-so secretly glad you cried, ye hoor, and I’m sorry about the ellipsis…(ha). Kara Malinczak, you’re the best! Thank you for working your butt off on it!

Of course, I have to thank my parents for giving me the gift of a dysfunctional family from which to draw all my inspiration from (though they’re much better than Val’s, don’t worry)—we may not fit flush, but we fit close enough and I love you.

Finally, Scott … I literally can’t do this job without you and I’ll always tell you I love you more. You and Bruce are the best parts of my life, even if Bruce gets the zoomies when I’m trying to write. Thank you for being the “brilliant” in my life.





About the Author



Karina Halle, a former travel writer and music journalist, is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of The Pact, A Nordic King, and Sins & Needles, as well as fifty other wild and romantic reads. She, her husband, and their adopted pit bull live in a rain forest on an island off British Columbia, where they operate a B&B that’s perfect for writers’ retreats. In the winter, you can often find them in California or on their beloved island of Kauai, soaking up as much sun (and getting as much inspiration) as possible. For more information, visit www.authorkarinahalle.com/books.