Crimson Cove (23 page)

“Because, little witch, out of everyone in the world that will hurt me, you’re the only one worth the pain.”

And with my smile came his kiss, that slow, long movement that I’d come to love, the one I’d missed and craved and needed for ten long years. And as Bane kissed me, as he took me to the floor, devoured me completely right among my tarps and paint cans and dried out brushes, I knew he was worth whatever the future might bring.               
 

-The End-

Everything I know about magic (and fantasy fiction), I learned from Neil Gaiman, JK Rowling and Bryan Camp. Only one of those folks is a good friend. He’s also one of my biggest cheerleaders and though I doubt he’ll ever read
Crimson Cove
, I hope he knows how much his talent and his encouragement of mine has meant to be over the past decade. Thank you, friend.

As always, I could not publish a single word without Sharon Browning and Karen Chapman’s impeccable editing and copy editing skills. Thank you so much for always telling me the truth and for holding my hand when I think I could not possibly finish another book. I love you both.

Thank you to Lila Felix and Chelle Bliss who are always there to listen to my wild ideas and make my plots make sense. To my work buddies, Marie, Sherry, Barbra B., Sarah and Kalpana, and my “Sweet” Team and betas: Trish Leger, Judy Lovely, Carla Castro, Naarah Scheffler, LK Westhaver, Lorain Domich, Melanie Brunsch, Michelle Horstman-Thompson, Allyson Lavigne Wilson, Chanpreet Singh,
Emily Lamphear
, Heather Weston-Confer, Betsy Gehring, Allison Coburn and Sammy Llewellyn, thank you all for your immense support and encouragement.

Thanks so much to the Relentless Reviewers and the Vixen Writers Group for all your pre-publishing support and word of mouth pimping. I am immensely grateful to each of you! Thank you, as always to my bints, especially Judy, Aymes, Allison and Lisa for always reading and cheering me on and to my beautiful nieces Joy, Jenn, Kayla and Juli for your constant love and support.

Thank you to each of my readers who are on this journey with me. Thank you for your opinions and advice, for coming out to see us at signings and supporting every event we are involved in. Thank you also to the writing community and the wonderful friends I’ve made within it including Penelope Douglas, JD Hollyfield, Ing Cruz and CC Wood. You all mean the world to me.

Finally, thank you so much to my girls, Trin, Faith and Grace and to my Himself, Chris, for always believing in me and for helping me live such a blessed and beautiful life. None of it would matter at all if it weren’t for you.

Eden Butler is an editor and writer of Romance, SciFi and Fantasy novels and the nine-time great-granddaughter of an honest-to-God English pirate. This could explain her affinity for rule breaking and rum.

Crimson Cove
is her tenth novel.

When she’s not writing or wondering about her possibly Jack Sparrowesque ancestor, Eden writes, reads and spends too much time watching rugby, “Doctor Who” and New Orleans Saints football.

Currently, she is imprisoned under teenage rule alongside her husband in Southeastern Louisiana.

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