Collision of The Heart (18 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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any people helped in the concept and development of this story. Mostly, I wish to thank Patty Hall for telling me about the train wreck in my native state of Michigan. Thank you to Gina Welborn for the fencing match. And thank you to Kathy Davis and Melissa Endlich for initially seeing the merit in this story so that I actually wrote the whole novel. Most of all, thank you, my dear husband, for keeping my computer and my belief in love alive.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Laurie Alice Eakes lay in bed as a child telling herself stories and dreaming of becoming a published writer. She is now a bestselling, award-winning author with nearly two dozen books in print.
Romantic Times
writes: “Eakes has a charming way of making her novels come to life without being over the top.”

Laurie Alice has a degree in English and French from Asbury University and a master’s degree in fiction writing from Seton Hill University. She lives in Texas with her husband and sundry pets. She loves watching old movies with her husband in the winter and going for long walks along Galveston beaches in the summer. When she isn’t writing, she’s doing housework, which she considers time to work out plot points, and visiting museums as a recreational activity. For more information about Laurie Alice and her books, visit
www.lauriealiceeakes.com
.