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And for their encouragement, thank you to my friends and walking buddies, Lisa Lundy, Mary Lou Linton-Morningstar, Marilyn Fitzgerald, Sharon Wolpert, and especially Donna Wallace, who was an early reader and champion of this novel.

Finally, the most heartfelt thanks to my husband, Joe Mertz, and our children, Joe and Maggie, for your constant love and support.

 

ALSO BY
REBECCA DRAKE

don’t be afraid

the next killing

the dead place

 

about the author

REBECCA DRAKE
moves to hardcover with her breakout psychological thriller,
Only Ever You.
She is the author of three other suspense novels,
Don’t Be Afraid, The Next Killing,
and
The Dead Place,
as well as the short story “Loaded,” which was featured in
Pittsburgh Noir.
Rebecca is an instructor in Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction M.F.A. program. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two children. Find more at
RebeccaDrake.com
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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

Part I: Before

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Part II: After

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Also by Rebecca Drake

About the Author

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS.

An imprint of St. Martin’s Press.

ONLY EVER YOU
. Copyright © 2016 by Rebecca Drake. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Cover design by Ervin Serrano

Cover photograph by Mark Owen/Trevillion Images

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Names: Drake, Rebecca, author.

Title: Only ever you / Rebecca Drake.

Description: First edition.|New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015043224|ISBN 9781250068910 (hardcover)|ISBN 9781466877702 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Missing children—Investigation—Fiction.|Mothers and daughters—Fiction.|BISAC: FICTION / Contemporary Women.|FICTION / Suspense.|GSAFD: Mystery fiction.|Suspense fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3604.R3553 O59 2016|DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2015043224

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First Edition: March 2016

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