Hands Down

skin that sounded like “I love you so much,” and “I can’t believe it,” and “Are you serious?” and “We need to go to the doctor tomorrow mornin’,” and “What the hell do you have to be scared of? We got this,” and “You’re the love of my life, kiddo.”
And he was right.
Together, we had this, me and the love of my life. Hands down.

Acknowledgments
Thank you so much for reading HANDS DOWN! First and foremost, thank you so much to all of my incredible readers for all of your support and love.
Eva, thank you so much for your diligence, memory and suggestions. I don’t know what I’d do without you. (Well, Zac would have brown hair, I’d have the kids mixed up, and there would be a Mark/Marcus in every book, among a thousand other mistakes, haha.) Thank you for everything, dude. You’re the best.
Sita and Isa, thank you for your help with the blurb! Judy, I can’t thank you enough for always answering all of my audio questions and for just being wonderful. Letitia at RBA Designs, Virginia at Hot Tree Editing and Ellie with My Brother’s Editor, thank you for being amazing. Kilian, I’m so grateful for all your help.
Thanks also to Jane, Kemi and Lauren of Dystel, Goderich & Bourret for all of their work with getting my books into different markets.
To my friends who I know I’m forgetting: thank you for everything.
To my Zapata, Navarro, and Letchford family, you’re the greatest families a girl could ever ask for. A very special thank you to my mom for being a great travel partner, always agreeing to be my assistant even before I tell you where we’re going, and for being more organized than I am.
To Chris, Kai, and my forever editor and angel in the sky, Dorian: I love you guys so much.


About the Author
Mariana Zapata lives in a small town in Colorado with her husband and two oversized children—her beloved Great Danes, Dorian and Kaiser. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, spending time outside, forcing kisses on her boys, or pretending to write.
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