Authors: Gaby Triana

Riding the Universe (21 page)

Acknowledgments

With unwavering gratitude and love, I thank the following people for their support during this unpredictable rideâNoah and Murphy, for being good babies who let me write
Riding the Universe
in five-minute spurts during their first year; Michael, for the interest to always ask which scene I wrote that day; my stepdaughter, Devin, for her intelligent suggestions; my colleagues, Danielle Joseph, Adrienne Sylver, Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld, and Marjetta Geerling, for reading early drafts and providing excellent feedback; my amazing agent, Steven Chudney, for going along with my ideas and being the best agent everâperiod; my editor, Sarah Sevier, for her incredible insight and patience; and finally my husband, Chris NuÃ±ez, for coaxing Motor Girl out of me and onto the page, for believing in me always, and for telling me to write, baby, write, because that's what writers do. I love you.

About the Author

Gaby Triana
is the author of three other novels,
THE TEMPTRESS FOUR, CUBANITA
, and
BACKSTAGE PASS
. She lives in Miami, Florida, with her husband and their four children. You can visit her online at www.gabytriana.com.

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Credits

Jacket design by Joel Tippie

Copyright

RIDING THE UNIVERSE
. Copyright Â© 2009 by Gaby Triana. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Adobe Digital Edition April 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-185901-4

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