BARED TO YOU wouldn’t be what it is without you, Hilary. Thank you so much!

To Martha Trachtenberg, copy editor extraordinaire.

This book is an important one for me and she treated it that way. Thank you, Martha!

To Victoria Colotta, for al her hard work on the interior design and typesetting. She took my plain text and made it gorgeous. Thank you, Victoria!

To Tera Kleinfelter, who read the first half of Bared to You and told me she loved it. Thank you, Tera!

To al girls who were at Cross Creek at some point in your adolescence: May all your dreams come true.

You deserve it.

And to Alistair and Jessica, from Seven Years to Sin, who inspired me to write Gideon and Eva’s story.

I’m so glad the inspiration struck twice!

“Come on, Eva.” Cary sat on our new living room floor amid a half-dozen moving boxes and flashed his winning smile. We’d been unpacking for days, yet he stil looked amazing. Leanly built, dark-haired, and green-eyed, Cary was a man who rarely looked anything less than absolutely gorgeous on any day of his life. I might have resented that if he hadn’t been the dearest person on earth to me.