by Katie Tallo
My awesome agent, David Halpern, is the best. He’s been my sounding board, editor, advocate, and champion for the past six years. His easy manner, his kindness, his humor, his intellect, and his brilliant advice have made this foray into novel-writing an unexpected delight. His team has always been generous with their time and their ideas. I still can’t believe he agreed to represent me. Lucky for me, he did.
And last but most definitely not least, I’d like to thank another amazing woman in my life. My sweet daughter. My Alex. She is my reason. My reason for writing, for getting out of bed in the morning, for telling stories. She is my best friend, my daughter, my heart. It is through her eyes that I can see the mother, the woman, the writer that I might still become.
This book is hers.
All except for a tiny corner reserved for my sweet pup to chew on. My Levi. Gone, but never forgotten.
About the Author
KATIE TALLO GREW UP IN OTTAWA, ONTARIO. AFTER STUDYING Film and English at Carleton University and Television Broadcasting at Algonquin College, she was invited to attend the prestigious Women in the Director’s Chair in Banff. For the next two decades, she wrote, produced, and directed short films, documentaries, feature films, and television series. Her films toured festivals across North America. In 2013, she won the Mslexia Novel Competition in the United Kingdom for unpublished fiction. Katie lives with her husband, Andy, in the Wellington West neighborhood of Ottawa.
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
DARK AUGUST. Copyright © 2020 by Katie Tallo. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
Cover design by James Iacobelli
Cover photograph © Guy Jean Genevier/Arcangel Images; © David Dea/Shutterstock (water tower)
Digital Edition JUNE 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-294805-2
Version 05112020
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-294804-5
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