Only Ever You (42 page)
Authors: Rebecca Drake
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
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
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Contents
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.
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
