The Life She Left Behind by Maisey Yates Page A

to be a writer even before she knew what it was she wanted to write.
    At her very first job she was fortunate enough to meet her very own tall, dark and handsome hero, who happened to be her boss, and promptly married him and started a family. It wasn’t until she was pregnant with her second child that she found her very first Harlequin Presents® book in a local thrift store—by the time she’d reached the happily ever after, she had fallen in love. She devoured as many as she could get her hands on after that, and she knew that these were the books she wanted to write!
    She started submitting, and nearly two years later, while pregnant with her third child, she received The Call from her editor. At the age of twenty-three, she sold her first manuscript to the Harlequin Presents line, and she was very glad that the good news didn’t send her into labor!
    She still can’t quite believe she’s blessed enough to see her name on, not just any book, but on her favorite books.
    Maisey lives with her supportive, handsome, wonderful, diaper-changing husband and three small children, across the street from her parents and the home she grew up in, in the wilds of southern Oregon. She enjoys the contrast of living in a place where you might wake up to find a bear on your back porch, then walk into the home office to write stories that take place in exotic, urban locales.
    Visit Maisey’s website at www.maiseyyates.com.

Other titles by Maisey Yates available in ebook:
    Harlequin Presents:
    The Petrov Proposal
    Marriage Made on Paper
    The Inherited Bride
    An Accidental Birthright
    His Virgin Acquisition
    And look for her book in The Santina Crown series, Princess from the Shadows !

ISBN: 978-1-4268-3589-6
    The Life She Left Behind
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