Thank you to Colleen Oakes for constantly being a wonderful writing friend and providing support and critique and the warmest friendship from three thousand miles away. To Rae Loverde, Slytherin badass love, wonderful friend for the texts that cross like ships in the night, and for everything you did and always do to help me and my words. You are indispensable.
TO YOU, gentle and punk rock reader. Here’s to you. A toast of whatever beverage you’re into. Thanks for everything. Everything.
And last, not least, family. Humans with whom I cohabitate. Blur, thanks for the phrase “that’s white people shit.” Boys, Mal and E, you are what makes everything worth it. And Sara, well. Critique partner, co-writer, fave, actual not in any way related family: *nose wrinkle* You invited me into your home on PURPOSE; you did this to YOURSELF.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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BRIANNA R. SHRUM has been writing since she could scrawl letters. She digs all things bookish, geeky, superhero-y, gamer-y, magical, and strange. You can usually find her writing under her Harry Potter tree, and drinking chai (which she holds as proof of magic in the world). She is also the author of Kissing Ezra Holtz (And Other Things I Did for Science), How to Make Out, The Art of French Kissing, and Never Never. She lives in a Charlotte suburb in South Carolina, with her favorite people.