Totlandia: The Onesies, Book 1 (Fall) (19 page)

Seeing the woman sent a spark of jealousy through me, but Mina drew my focus back: “Sumarra, Jonah was a Hunter.”

Now I was clutching her, too. “How do you know?”

“I didn’t know at first,” she cried. “He must have had his birthmark removed. He pretended to be addicted, then I figured out he wasn’t. He took my phone, and now he’s gone.”

Bahar finally succeeded in pulling Mina off me. She turned her and took her shoulders. “No, Mina! Tell me you didn’t.”

Mina sobbed too hard to respond.

“We have to warn them,” I said. I took out my phone and dialed Dilara’s number. Waited. “There’s no answer.”

“We’re too late!” Mina screamed.

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I have been blessed with numerous friends and family who cheer me on in my writing endeavors. My love and thanks to all of you:

Eddie Concha; Andrew, Linda and Ben Brown; Darien and Don Coleman; Andrée Belle and André de Santaana; Deb and Wendy Brown; Seth and Heather Brown; Sean and Jackie Brown; Vera and Ron Gott; Pam Gott; Kelly and Doug Gott; Melissa and Fred Zucker; Sharon Conn; Angela and Tom Johnson; Helen Drake; Bonnie and John Gray; Bettie, Sheryl and Richard Levy; Rita Abrams; Karin Tabke; Stephanie Bond; Allison O’Connor; Kate Perry; Jean and Berney Neufeld; Nancy and Craig Yarborough; Margaret and Ron Redmond; Tatjana and Gaylord Soli; Kristin Isaacson; Marnie Weber; Poppy Reiffin; Heather Atkinson; and Desiree Miller.

I also want to thank those who made this book and its sequels a reality:

My publisher, Coliloquy, is mind-bendingly awesome. I appreciate your unbridled enthusiasm, Lisa Rutherford, Waynn Lue, and Jennifer Lou; and for providing me with the great team of Courtney Koschel, Aimee Radmacher, and Mary McCaw;

I have the best literary agent in the business. Holly Root, I am always in awe of you;

When it comes to all things big and small screen, I owe a tremendous debt of thanks to Jon Cassir, who works ceaselessly on my behalf;

As much as I appreciate my editor, Megan McKeever, for her sharp pencil, her way of challenging me to make the most of my characters is why I love her.

Finally, my own totlandia was created by the three people I love most: Martin, Austin and Anna. Thank you, sweet family, for the memories that are the grist for my creative mill.

—Josie Brown

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About the Author

Josie Brown
 
is the author of five novels:

The Housewife Assassin's Handbook
 
[2011, Signal Press]
 

The Baby Planner
[
2011, Simon & Schuster]

Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
 
[2010, Simon & Schuster]

Impossibly Tongue-Tie
d
[
2006, HarperCollins]

True Hollywood Lies
 
[2005, HarperCollins; 2010 Diversion Books]
 

Her novel,
 
Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
 
(Simon & Schuster), is being
optioned by producer Jerry Bruckheimer as a dramatic television series.

Josie is also the author of three non-fiction books:
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Finding Mr. Right
[Alpha/Pearson];
Marriage Confidential: 102 Honest Answers to the Questions Every Husband Wants to Ask, and Every Wife Needs to Know
[Signal Press]; and
Last Night I Dreamt of Cosmopolitans: A Modern Girl's Dream Dictionary
[St. Martin's Press]

As a journalist, Josie's celebrity interviews and relationships trends articles have been featured in the
Los Angeles Times
 
Syndicate International,
 
Redbook
 
and
 
Complete Woman
 
magazines, as well as AOL, Yahoo, AskMen.com, Divorce360.com, and SingleMindedWomen.com