Джей Крауновер - Built

The Lone Bellow: “Green Eyes and a Heart of Gold”/“Cold As It Is”

Jason Isbell: “24 Frames”/“I Follow Rivers”

Amanda Shires: “Hearts Are Breaking”

Def Leppard: “Pour Some Sugar on Me”

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I want to extend a special thank-you to Carla Dragon and Jessica Schwartz. They are both members of my private group on Facebook and they won the chance to have their names in Built . Carla popped up as Sayer’s paralegal and Jessica got to name Auntie Echo . . . whom I liked a lot more than I thought I was going to, so maybe we’ll see more of her around. Be quiet, brain, you already have enough stories filling you up! 0_o Anyway, thanks for being part of the Crowd, ladies, and I hope it was fun seeing your names in print.

I adore my readers, and being able to make them a part of my process in even this little way is pretty cool. If you are interested in joining the group, feel free to go to:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/crownoverscrowd/

I do a lot of giveaways and we have a pretty good time. It’s really a place where I can connect one-on-one with readers and it is always all about the love. Believe it or not, there are safe places on the Internet. ☺

I usually wax on endlessly in my acknowledgments because I really do have a lot of love to give and a lot of people who push me and force me to be better, but I’m gonna attempt to keep things short and sweet this go-round. I have SO MANY books to write. A good problem to have, am I right?!

All my readers: Thank you for being you. Thank you for being honest and willing to take a risk. Thank you for letting me do my thing even if you wish my thing was something else. You are the best in the land and I really do owe you everything.

To the blogger nation: Thank you for being badass. Thank you for loving books. Thanks for keeping shit real. Thanks for working so hard often with little reward. Thank you for being invested and interested. Thank you for being on the front lines; sometimes it gets bloody and brutal there, but you never give up the fight . . . neither will I.

My professional team. Amanda, Jessie, Elle, Molly (the whole Harper crew) . . . all you kick-ass chicks in NYC who do what you do like no other, thanks. Thanks for putting up with me and believing in what I do . . . even if it never is quite the status quo. Your support and faith is humbling in a business that often feels like it can eat you up and spit you out. At the end of the day I never doubt really amazing things will happen when we put our heads together. Kelly Simmon, thanks for answering the Bat Signal whenever it lights up and being all the kinds of awesome you are. Thanks for being clever and quick and thanks for being my friend. Stacey Donaghy, thanks for being you . . . which is an awful lot like being me! Seriously, thank you for just getting it . . . whatever it may be at the time.

My inner circle, what would I do without you guys? Melissa Shank . . . you are everything and then some more things . . . you always have been amazing and I feel so lucky I get to walk this road with you every single day (yes, I named Zeb’s mom after you), Ali, Debbie, Denise, Heather, Megan, Vilma, Jen Mc and Stacey (are you ready for my sweet dance moves?), thanks for simply getting me and getting what I do. Thanks for your honesty and time . . . I know how valuable it is. It may have all started out business but it feels so far removed from that now and I can honestly say you ladies are some of the real, true rewards that have ended up crossing my path along this journey. I love all your faces and want to smother you in so much love. You make me better and there aren’t enough words to thank you for that.

Thanks to the people who have crossed my path and make me happy every single day just by being them and by loving books the same way I do: Renee, Christine, Pamela, Stephanie, Damaris, Melissa ( Jersey), Matt, Becky, Pam, Courtney, LJ, and Carolyn . . . this is for you. Please just stay awesome and full of all the great things this industry needs.

To all the authors who are so disgustingly talented and so inordinately gracious with their time and gifts, thank you for being my inspirations and my friends. You are all brilliant and who you are as people as well as storytellers is unparalleled. This huge thanks and virtual hug goes out to Jen Armentrout, Jenn Foor, Jenn Cooksey, Jen McLaughlin, Tiffany King, Cora Carmack, Emma Hart, Renee Carlino, Nyrae Dawn, Kristy Bromberg, Aleatha Romig, Tammara Webber, Megan Erickson, Jamie Shaw, Katie McGary, Penelope Douglas, Nicole Chase, Kristen Proby, Amy Jackson, Rebecca Shea, Laurelin Page, Ek Blair, Adrian Leigh, SC Stephens, Molly McAdams, Crystal Perkins, Kimberly Knight, Tijan, Karina Halle, Christina Lauren, Chelsea M. Cameron, Sophie Jordan, Daisy Prescott, Michelle Valentine, Felicia Lynn, Harper Sloan, Monica Murphy, Erin McCarthy, Liliana Hart, Laura Kaye, Heather Self, and Kathleen Tucker. Seriously, I admire every author on this list, and what they add to this business and to my writerly life. If you are looking for a solid book to read, I promise one of theirs won’t disappoint.

I can never thank my mom and dad enough for all the things they have done for me or for the enormous amount of support they have shown since this writing gig took off. They are just the best of the best and no kid is luckier than me. Thanks, Mom and Dad, for being all the things . . . ALWAYS.

As always, I love to give my buddy Mike Maley a shout-out because he’s an awesome dude and he spends a lot of time taking care of things for me when I’m not around to do it. You’re the best, Mike, and I don’t know what I would do without you . . . at all!

Last but not least, thanks to my furry little entourage for being my heart. Woof!

If you would like to contact me, there are a bazillion places you can do so!

https://www.facebook.com/jay.crownover

https://www.facebook.com/AuthorJayCrownover?ref=hl

@jaycrownover

www.jaycrownover.com

http://jaycrownover.blogspot.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/Crownover

http://www.donaghyliterary.com/jay-crownover.html

http://www.avonromance.com/author/jay-crownover

Thank you for everything.

Love & Ink

Jay

IT TAKES A BRAVE MAN TO WEATHER THE STORM WHEN HE’S

CHARGED

WITH BEING BOTH LOVER AND LAWYER TO A PINK-HAIRED HURRICANE . . .

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JAY CROWNOVER is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men and Welcome to the Point series. Like her characters, she is a big fan of tattoos. She loves music and wishes she could be a rock star, but since she has no aptitude for singing or instrument playing, she’ll settle for writing stories with interesting characters that make the reader feel something. She lives in Colorado with her three dogs.

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BY JAY CROWNOVER

The Saints of Denver Series

Built

The Welcome to the Point Series

Better When He’s Brave

Better When He’s Bold

Better When He’s Bad

The Marked Men Series

Asa

Rowdy

Nash

Rome

Jet

Rule

CREDITS

Cover design by Studio Takoma/Zoe Norvell

Cover photograph © by Kevin Irby Photography

COPYRIGHT

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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