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Sophie Jordan


  I can’t write proper acknowledgments without a shout-out to my family and friends. To my husband, children, parents, and in-laws, I couldn’t ask for more love and encouragement. Jared, I know you love these books best, and I love you all the more for that . . . especially for being the kind of husband who reads his wife’s books . . . even if that means ignoring her on vacation until he finishes the last forty pages of one. I’m lucky to have you. To my cop-cousin, Ben, thanks for answering all my questions.

  Here’s the scary part. Where I list all my friends who’ve been crazy supportive with me as I wrote The Ivy Chronicles and pray that I don’t forget anyone. Sarah MacLean (thanks for always asking the hard questions that get me to the end), Jennifer Armentrout (your input is invaluable), Jay Crownover (thanks for being the one to insist “holy hot teenage boy” toe the dom-line!), and Lindsay Marsh (what would I do without your keen eyes?). Massive thanks and hugs to the rest of my crew: Tera Lynn Childs, Shana Galen, Mary Lindsey, Carrie Ryan, Rachel Vincent, Sarah J. Maas, Tessa Bailey, and Lisa Desrochers. To my bookseller friends at Katy Budget Books and especially bookseller extraordinaire, Crystal Perkins! You guys humble me with all you do for my books. I also want to give a special thanks to super fan Susan for giving me words from her own life to inject into Georgia’s story!

  And you. My dear reader. Thank you for taking this journey with me and I hope you’ll follow me through my future endeavors (aka more books!).

  Happy reading,

  Sophie

  About the Author

  SOPHIE JORDAN is the internationally and New York Times bestselling author of the Firelight series and Avon romances. When she’s not writing, she spends her time overloading on caffeine (lattes preferred), talking plotlines with anyone who will listen (including her kids), and cramming her DVR with true-crime and reality TV shows.

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  Also by Sophie Jordan

  THE IVY CHRONICLES

  Tease

  Foreplay

  HISTORICAL ROMANCE

  A Good Debutante’s Guide to Ruin

  How to Lose a Bride in One Night

  The Earl in My Bed (Novella)

  Lessons from a Scandalous Bride

  Wicked in Your Arms

  Wicked Nights With a Lover

  In Scandal They Wed

  Sins of a Wicked Duke

  Surrender to Me

  One Night With You

  Too Wicked to Tame

  Once Upon a Wedding Night

  THE FIRELIGHT SERIES

  Breathless (Novella)

  Hidden

  Vanish

  Firelight

  OTHER FICTION

  Uninvited

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  Credits

  Cover photograph © by Vasilchenko Nikita/Getty Images

  Author photograph by Country Park Portraits

  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.

  WILD. Copyright © 2014 by Sharie Kohler. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  ISBN: 978-0-06-227991-0

  EPub Edition NOVEMBER 2014 ISBN 9780062279927

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