Hold On Tight (Take My Hand)
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“I’m dying, Dexter.”
Fuck.
To be continued…
Dexter and Emily’s story is far from over. If you want to find out whether they get their happy ever after, stay tuned for Never Let Go, coming March 2014. Also, if you missed Rachel and Jared and want to know what they got up while Dexter and Emily were away from home, keep yours eyes peeled for Lean On Me – Rachel and Jared’s story, coming January 2014.
Acknowledgements
As always, thank you to my wonderful family. Thank you Michael, my husband and my soulmate, for your continued support and encouragement. I love and adore you with all my heart.
Thank you Mum and Dad for all the wonderful things you do for me and my family. Thank you for all your help and support and for being such brilliant grandparents. I’m pretty sure if you didn’t look after my children so often I would have gone insane by now!
Thank you Keeley Wall – the best friend in the whole world EVER – for brainstorming with me, encouraging me, being there for me, putting up with all my whining and most of all for being as ridiculously batshit crazy as I am!
Thank you to all you fabulous bloggers out there. There are so many amazing bloggers who I just adore and am so, so grateful to. To every single one who has read and reviewed my books, posted, shared, liked, commented, pimped… THANK YOU. I have built up such a great relationship with some of you and I can’t thank you enough for continuing to support me with every book I write. The Book Enthusiast, Holly’s Hot Reads, Mia’s Point of View, Reading Rainblog, Book Hooked, Jelena’s Book Blog, Book Fanatic – Roni, The Book Trollop, and no doubt some more that my overcrowded brain has left out but who I still love to pieces… you are ALL awesomely fantabulous!
Thank you to my wonderful beta readers for lending me a few extra pairs of eyes. I can read and read and re-read some more yet still I’m guaranteed to miss something and I am so grateful for your opinions, feedback and advice. So, Karen Peacock, Paula Agnes, Holly Baker, Debbie Diprima, Tara Greseth and Autumn Thibault… thank you, wonderful ladies!
Special thanks to Debra at Book Enthusiast Promotions. Thank you for your super organizational skills and all your help and hard work arranging my cover reveals and blog tours, and also for being an all-round super fun gal!
Thank you to Kari at Cover to Cover designs for once again creating another awesome cover which I am so proud of!
And finally I would like to thank my readers. I am overwhelmed by your support and positivity and I’d like to say a HUGE thank you to each and every person that’s read one or more of my books. As for my Facebook likers and Twitter followers – I love getting to know you all and thanks so much for joining in with me. You guys rock!
I have met so many amazing people since starting this journey - readers, bloggers and authors alike (and yes, even though I am one – I still totally fangirl when I get to interact with an author whose book I have read!). I am so happy and proud to have made so many new friends and if you’re reading this and we talk to each other, even if it’s just sharing the odd comment on Facebook… then I’m talking about YOU. I love you all…
Especially you, Paula Agnes! I may not have met you yet in ‘real life’ but I already consider you one of my best friends. You are one seriously awesome lady who is exactly my kind of crazy :D
The end… I think that’d make a damn good Oscar speech. How about you?
About The Author
I live in Rochdale, England with my husband, four children and Heinz 57 puppies Pippa and Gio. I’m a true home bird and have never lived more than a street away from the family home where I grew up – currently living smack bang in the middle of my parents and my sister and her family.
I read as much as I write and am a self-confessed ‘book whore’ who is proud to have a list of book boyfriends longer than my arm. When I’m not reading and writing I can usually be found being the house’s resident slave – cooking, cleaning, picking up after everyone… although if you ever catch me doing a bucketful of ironing – call an ambulance. That means something’s seriously wrong with me!
That’s about it really. I’m actually pretty boring. That’s why I write – all the exciting stuff goes on in my head! Oh, and did I mention I’m the world’s biggest Twilight fan? Well I am – so there ;-)
And that’s my life…
Oh… one more thing - if the kids ever ask, I moonlight as the Pink Power Ranger while they’re sleeping :-)
Thanks for reading!
Table of Contents
Prologue
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
Acknowledgements
About The Author