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by Tessa Bailey


This book was inspired by three things. One, the podcast Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel. Two, the song “Apple Juice” by Jessie Reyez. I wouldn’t have been inspired to write Rosie and Dominic’s journey without the voices of these strong women and the different ways they explore the vulnerabilities and pitfalls of relationships. Not to mention how beautiful relationships can be when treasured accordingly. My third source of inspiration was the book The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. It’s amazing how differently you can see the person you know the best when you consider them a little more closely.

Thank you to my family; my readers; my editor, Nicole Fischer; my agent, Laura Bradford; and the publicity team at Avon for helping get this book out into the world.

About the Author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author TESSA BAILEY is originally from Carlsbad, California. The day after high school graduation, she packed her yearbook, ripped jeans, and laptop, and drove cross-country to New York City in under four days. Her most valuable life experiences were learned thereafter while waitressing at K-Dees, a Manhattan pub owned by her uncle. Inside those four walls, she met her husband and discovered the magic of classic rock, managing to put herself through Kingsborough Community College and the English program at Pace University at the same time. Several stunted attempts to enter the workforce as a journalist followed, but romance writing continued to demand her attention.

She now lives in Long Island, New York, with her husband and daughter. Although she is severely sleep-deprived, she is incredibly happy to be living her dream of writing about people falling in love.

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By Tessa Bailey

THIS SERIES

Fix Her Up

Love Her or Lose Her

THE ACADEMY

Disorderly Conduct

Indecent Exposure

Disturbing His Peace

BROKE AND BEAUTIFUL

Chase Me

Need Me

Make Me

ROMANCING THE CLARKSONS

Too Hot to Handle

Too Wild to Tame

Too Hard to Forget

Too Beautiful to Break

MADE IN JERSEY

Crashed Out

Rough Rhythm

Thrown Down

Worked Up

Wound Tight

CROSSING THE LINE

Risking It All

Up in Smoke

Boiling Point

Raw Redemption

LINE OF DUTY

Protecting What’s His

Protecting What’s Theirs (novella)

His Risk to Take

Officer Off Limits

Asking for Trouble

Staking His Claim

SERVE

Owned by Fate

Exposed by Fate

Driven by Fate

BEACH KINGDOM

Mouth to Mouth

Heat Stroke

STANDALONE BOOKS

Unfixable

Baiting the Maid of Honor

Off Base (with Sophie Jordan)

Captivated (with Eve Dangerfield)

Getaway Girl

Runaway Girl

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

LOVE HER OR LOSE HER. Copyright © 2020 by Tessa Bailey. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, 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 hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Cover design and illustration by Colleen Reinhart

FIRST EDITION

Digital Edition JANUARY 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-287286-9

Version 11122019

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-287285-2 (paperback)

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-300435-1 (hardcover library edition)

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