The Me I Used to Be

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by Jennifer Ryan


  —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

  “Ryan tells a touching story . . . The novel unfolds into a delicate romance that becomes something intensely sexy as Gillian discovers strength she never knew she had in the arms of a man who wants to keep her safe.”

  —RT Magazine

  Praise for Montana Men: At Wolf Ranch

  “Grab onto your saddles and get ready for a fun ride! Jennifer Ryan’s At Wolf Ranch will remind you that there’s nothing sexier than a real cowboy. It’s a winner from start to finish!”

  —Brenda Novak, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author

  “ At Wolf Ranch is a masterpiece of a mystery with a powerful ending. The drama and tension builds page by page drawing you into a maze of corruption and greed that has the reader hungry for what will be uncovered next. Nothing is what it seems. That is the beauty of this well constructed story. Jennifer Ryan has just moved up my list of must read authors.”

  —Fresh Fiction

  Praise for The Hunted: Everything She Wanted

  “Infused with intense drama, a dab of suspense, and oodles of bloodshed, this action-packed romp is a high-stakes page-turner.”

  —Publishers Weekly

  Praise for The Hunted: Saved by the Rancher

  “Ryan has created an emotional story of love and redemption and proves she certainly knows how to create an atmosphere of constant fear . . . The complexity of the main characters gives the book a welcome depth, and their growing intimacy mitigates much of the darkness left in the wake of the story’s formidable villain. With memorable secondary characters, including a remarkable dog named Sally, this is a reading experience not easily forgotten.”

  —Romantic Times

  Also by Jennifer Ryan

  WILD ROSE RANCH SERIES

  Dirty Little Secret

  MONTANA HEAT SERIES

  Tempted by Love

  Montana Heat: True to You

  Montana Heat: Escape to You

  Montana Heat: Protected by Love

  MONTANA MEN SERIES

  His Cowboy Heart

  Her Renegade Rancher

  Stone Cold Cowboy

  Her Lucky Cowboy

  When It’s Right

  At Wolf Ranch

  THE MCBRIDES SERIES

  Dylan’s Redemption

  Falling for Owen

  The Return of Brody McBride

  THE HUNTED SERIES

  Everything She Wanted

  Chasing Morgan

  The Right Bride

  Lucky Like Us

  Saved by the Rancher

  SHORT STORIES

  “Close to Perfect”

  (appears in Snowbound at Christmas)

  “Can’t Wait”

  (appears in All I Want for Christmas Is a Cowboy)

  “Waiting for You”

  (appears in Confessions of a Secret Admirer)

  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.

  P.S.™ is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers.

  THE ME I USED TO BE. Copyright © 2019 by Jennifer Ryan. 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 Elsie Lyons

  Cover photographs © BigBoom / Kamenetskiy Konstantin / Shutterstock (2 images); © plainpicture / mia takahara (woman); © Andy Brandl / Getty Images (background)

  Title page illustration © Kostenyukova Nataliya / Shutterstock, Inc.

  Digital Edition JUNE 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-288392-6

  Version 04302019

  Print ISBN: 978-0-06-288391-9

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  Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Dedication

  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

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty-One

  Chapter Thirty-Two

  Chapter Thirty-Three

  Chapter Thirty-Four

  Chapter Thirty-Five

  Chapter Thirty-Six

  Chapter Thirty-Seven

  P.S. Insights, Interviews & More . . .*About the Author

  About the Book

  Praise

  Also by Jennifer Ryan

  Copyright

  About the Publisher

 

 

 


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