Kathie and Roy Bennett; Susan Zurenda; and the Magic Time team, Angela Melamud, Tamara Welch, Ashley Hayes, and Ashley Edmondson… What on earth would I do without you guys? You make so very much happen every day, and I’m the luckiest to have each of you in my life.

I am so grateful to the incredible, amazing, fabulous, spectacular book influencers who hold me up and float these books along. I could fill a book with all of them! So, to all of you, you know who you are, and I can’t wait to share your fabulous content. I love you so much! Special shout-out to the amazing JoAnna Garcia Swisher and The Happy Place, Kristy Barrett of A Novel Bee, Ashley Bellman, Stephanie Gray, Zibby Owens and the Moms Don’t Have Time team, Maghon Taylor of All She Wrote Notes, Grace Atwood from The Stripe, Andrea Katz, Cristina Frost, Susan Roberts, Susan Peterson, Susan McBeth, Emmy Griffith, Judy Collins, Meagan Briggs, Courtney Marzilli, Jennifer Clayton, Chase Waskey, Kristin Thorvaldsen, Randi Burton, Melissa Steele-Matovu, and Jess Williams for being by my side and being so supportive!

A special thanks to Alissa Redmond and my hometown bookstore South Main Book Co. in Salisbury, NC, for always going above and beyond to celebrate. Laura Taylor and Oxford Exchange in Tampa, FL, thanks for not only always hosting me but for all your amazing work on this year’s Friends & Fiction subscription. Tim Ehrenberg and everyone at Nantucket Books, I just love you guys! Sue and Dave Lucey and Page 158, Kimberly Daniels Taws and the Country Book Shop, M Judson, Book Love… Okay. I could go on and on. My tour wasn’t set yet when I wrote this, but thank you to each and every store that has hosted me for this book and the ones that came before. I get to be here because of you! And you too, Patricia Suggs. Beaufort Historic Site has supported me perhaps more than any other organization. Thanks for all you do to keep our town vibrant—and historic!—and for the massive amount of love you give me!

Now, to you, my fabulous, amazing, incredible readers. I get to be here because of you! I get to do this thing I love because of you. I can never thank you enough for picking up my books, for reading them, reviewing them, recommending them to friends.

So, call one of those friends now. Maybe share a copy of Beach House Rules. If I’ve learned anything, nothing connects friends across miles and years quite like bonding over a book. I hope this one helps you do just that.

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