I have never wanted to be anything else other than what I am now, at this moment, as my fate rests in her hands. I have rent, I’m still paying off my college loan, and I have a mother I love with a health condition and no insurance.

Even: I will work for free until we can find our feet. “Rachel, sit down.” I sit silently, a thousand things leaping to my tongue: I can do better I can do more let me do more, two articles a week rather than one. Without even looking up from the folder in her hand, Helen signals to the chair across hers. Three steps inside the cluttered room stacked with old magazines, ours and our competitors’, and my breakfast-coffee with two sugars, and strawberry jam on wholewheat toast-turns into a stone inside my stomach. Edge, the magazine I have written for and loved since I graduated from college, is hanging by a thread. It isn’t really my boss’s job to fire me. Walked into Helen’s office this morning certain she was going to fire me. I BELIEVE IN YOU by Kylie Minogue KISS YOU SLOW by Andy Grammer TALKING BODY by Tove Lo MY HEART IS OPEN by Maroon 5 BROKEN by Lifehouse NEED YOU NOW by Lady Antebellum PLAYLIST ADDICTED by Saving Abel UNDISCLOSED DESIRES by Muse SUPERHEROES by The Script CLIMAX by Usher STAY WITH ME by Sam Smith PEACE by O.A.R. To the slow burn we never see it coming until we catch fire. Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Gallery Books and Simon & Schuster. Thank you for downloading this Gallery Books eBook. “Wow-Katy Evans is one to watch.” -Wicked Little Pixie “Seductive, wild, and visceral.” -Christina Lauren on REAL Why was I not told I’d need one of those walk-in freezers while reading this book? Apart from being one of my most scorching reads of the year, the ‘realness’ of the love story took me totally off guard, and held me captive until the very last word.” -Natasha Is a Book Junkie on ROGUE “What a rare gift for an author to be able to actually wrap her arms around her readers and hold them. “Saturated with palpable tension and incendiary sex, this tale packs an emotional wallop.” -Library Journal on REAL She makes you FEEL every single word you read.” -Reality Bites Praise for New York Times bestselling author Katy Evans Author of The REAL series “Evans writing to a whole new level.

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