The Rental

by Rebecca Berto

  I have to give special thanks to Ava Manello, Maureen Mayer, and Emily Tippetts. For your acute questions and comments, I’m extremely grateful that you helped this novel in such an important way.

  Thanks to Monique Kharkrang and Leighta Bennett for your insights too.

  Christina Jean Michaels and Cassie Boss, what do I say to the two people who practically saved this novel? Thank you, and then some. Thank you for being The Rental’s heroine when my manuscript and I needed you. Thank you for your relentless time, dedication and excitement for this project. You questioned and pushed my way of thinking, and this book is so much better for it.

  Thanks to the individual readers and bloggers who have been with me all along. You know who you are, and your support drives me.

  Ashley Wellwood, thank you for being my sun, my smile, and my soul.

  About the Author

  Rebecca Berto writes stories about love and relationships. She gets a thrill when her readers are emotional reading her books and gets even more of a kick when they tell her so. She’s strangely imaginative, spends too much time on her computer, and is certifiably crazy when she works on her fiction.

  Rebecca Berto lives in Melbourne, Australia with her boyfriend and their pets.

  You can find Rebecca at:

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  Table of Contents

  About the Book

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  Acknowledgements

  About the Author

  Copyright © 2014 Rebecca Berto

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  No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  ISBN (eBook): 978-0-9874566-8-7

  ISBN (paperback): 978-1500710934

  Cover copyright © Rebecca Berto of Berto Designs

  Editing by Rogena Mitchell-Jones