Haunting-Adeline

Acknowledgments
I feel like I have so many people to thank for this book, and I have no
idea where to start. But what I do know, is this is going to be long, but I
think we can tell by the size of my books I don’t do short.
So, I’ll start where I always do. The readers. I can’t thank all of you
enough. Like all authors, we can only hope that you love our books. These
stories—we write them for ourselves. We write what makes us happy.
Because if we don’t, we’ll never survive in this career. Most know, wri ng
books is really fucking hard, so it feels impossible when you don’t love it.
And if we don’t love it, how could we expect someone else to? And then,
what’s the point in wri ng if no one loves it?
At the end of the day, we want our readers to love them with us. To
enjoy something we poured our souls into, and come out of it feeling like
you experienced this story right along with us. There’s honestly no greater
joy than that. And I appreciate all of you for taking this journey with me.
There’s no one else I can begin with other than the two people who
played a major role in this book and in my life. Cue the sappiness.
I met them both in the same exact way—I reached out and asked them
to take a chance on me and read my book, and they both became two of
the most important people in my life. They listened to me talk endlessly
about this book and these characters, brainstorm, asking ques ons and
offering advice, and reading snippets and yelling at me for spla ering (aka
doub ng myself.)
First, Amanda. You’re my best friend, plain and simple. You’re my other
half, my soulmate, and everything else in between. If it wasn’t for you, I’m
not sure I’d s ll be in this community. You’ve helped me through some
pre y dark mes and showed me love when I felt completely alone. We
have a connec on unlike anything else and some mes, I’m s ll in awe that
I got so lucky to find you. I just hope you know you’re stuck with me—
forever.
May, what the hell would I do without you? I can’t fathom it and I don’t
want to. When I first met you, I felt a connec on to you that I couldn’t