After (16 page)

Kristin Harmel
is a longtime contributor to
People
magazine. It was while working on a
People
story that she got to meet Kate Atwood, who runs Kate’s Club, an organization for grieving kids in Atlanta, which inspired this novel. Kristin lives in Orlando, Florida, and admits that she spends far too much time at Walt Disney World, which is just fifteen minutes from her house.

To learn more about Kristin, visit her Web site at
www.KristinHarmel.com
.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harmel, Kristin.
After / Kristin Harmel. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: When her father is killed in a car accident, Lacey feels responsible, so when she is given a chance to make a difference in the lives of some of her fellow students, she jumps at the chance.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89488-6
[1. Grief—Fiction. 2. Guilt—Fiction. 3. Family life—Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction.
5. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H2116Af 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2009001367

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