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Authors: Gena Showalter

“Actually, as long as you’re with me,” she said, “I have everything I need.”

He grinned and challenged, “As long as I’m
with
you . . . or
in
you?”

She laughed, the sound genuine and tinkling like bells, surprising her. When had she become such a girl? “I’m greedy. How about both?”

“I can get on board with that.” He fit his hands on her hips. “So let’s get started, shall we?”

“Working with Evie Black combines my two favorite things. Starting my day with her . . . and ending my day with her.”

—CORBIN BLUE

“I guess I’m like fungus. I grow on you.”

—EVIE BLACK

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GENA SHOWALTER
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of more than forty novels in a wide range of genres, including her acclaimed Alien Huntress series for Pocket Books. Her novels have appeared in
Cosmopolitan
and
Seventeen
, and have been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award as well as the National Readers’ Choice Award. She is universally acknowledged to be “made of awesome.” Seriously. Visit her website at
GenaShowalter.com
.

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Cover illustration by Nathalia Suellen

ISBN: 978-1-4516-7160-5

ISBN: 978-1-4516-7162-9 (ebook)

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Epigraph

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

About Gena Showalter

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