That sliding half step put his big body between the gun’s black, unwinking eyehole and everything that mattered to me on this green earth.
And that was it. That was when it happened. I lowered my body to the ground, and all of me was falling, faster than I could physically move, way further than a glance or an attraction, falling so hard into deep, red, desperate love. I lay flat on the Circle K’s dirty, cool floor, but the heart of me kept tumbling down. It fell all the way to the molten center of the earth, blazing into total, perfect feeling for the big blond wall of a man who had put himself between my child and bullets, before our eyes had ever met, before I so much as knew his name.
About the Author
JOSHILYN JACKSON is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including gods in Alabama and A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. A former actor, Jackson is also an award-winning audiobook narrator. She lives in Decatur, Georgia, with her husband and their two children.
Visit her website at www.JoshilynJackson.com.
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By Joshilyn Jackson
Someone Else’s Love Story
My Own Miraculous
gods in Alabama
Between, Georgia
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
Backseat Saints
A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty
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.
Excerpt from Someone Else’s Love Story copyright © 2013 by Joshilyn Jackson.
MY OWN MIRACULOUS. Copyright © 2013 by Joshilyn Jackson. 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, 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition NOVEMBER 2013 ISBN: 9780062300539
Print Edition ISBN: 9780062307323
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Table of Contents
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
An Excerpt from Someone Else’s Love Story
Chapter 1
About the Author
By Joshilyn Jackson
Copyright
About the Publisher
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