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  I bit my lip and shook my head. My heart ached for the terrifying warrior goddess I had left behind. “Goodbye, Annalise,” I whispered. Then I rolled down the passenger window and threw up.

  The End

  Now that you have finished The Jumbie House (a short story outtake from Leaving Annalise), won’t you please consider writing an honest review and leaving it on Amazon and/or Goodreads, or another site it if you bought it elsewhere? Reviews are the best way readers discover new books. I would truly appreciate it. If you enjoyed Katie & Annalise, you can pick up the 1st book in the series, Saving Grace, free in ebook form, as well as Leaving Annalise (#2)–the book The Jumbie House is adapted from–and Finding Harmony (#3). Also, please check out Going for Kona, coming October 2014, and available for pre-order now on Kobo, Nook, iBooks, and Smashwords.

  About the Author

  Pamela Fagan Hutchins holds nothing back and writes award-winning and bestselling romantic mysteries and hilarious nonfiction, from Texas, where she lives with her husband Eric and their blended family of three dogs, one cat, two ducks, one heifer, six goats, and the youngest few of their five offspring. She is the author of many books, including Saving Grace, Leaving Annalise, Finding Harmony, How To Screw Up Your Kids, Hot Flashes and Half Ironmans, and What Kind of Loser Indie Publishes? to name just a few.

  Pamela spends her non-writing time as a workplace investigator, employment attorney, and human resources professional, and she is the co-founder of a human resources consulting company. You can often find her hiking, running, bicycling, and enjoying the great outdoors.

  You can buy Pamela’s books at most online retailers and “brick and mortar” stores. You can also order them directly from SkipJack Publishing: http://SkipJackPublishing.com. If your bookstore or library doesn’t carry a book you want, by Pamela or any other author, ask them to order it for you.

  You can connect with Pamela all over creation, and should:

  Website http://pamelahutchins.com

  Email [email protected]

  New releases newsletter http://eepurl.com/iITR

  Facebook http://facebook.com/pamela.fagan.hutchins.author

  Twitter http://twitter.com/pameloth

  Goodreads http://goodreads.com/pamelafaganhutchins

  Amazon http://amazon.com/author/pamelafaganhutchins

  Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/pamelafhutchins

  Linkedin http://linkedin.com/in/pamelahutchins

  If you’d like Pamela to speak to your book club,women’s club, or writers group, shoot her an email. She’s very likely to say yes.

  Books by the Author

  Fiction from SkipJack Publishing:

  Saving Grace (Katie & Annalise #1)

  Leaving Annalise (Katie & Annalise #2)

  Finding Harmony (Katie & Annalise #3)

  The Jumbie House (A Short Story Outtake from Leaving Annalise)

  Going for Kona coming October 2014

  Nonfiction from SkipJack Publishing:

  The Clark Kent Chronicles: A Mother’s Tale Of Life With Her ADHD/Asperger’s Son

  Hot Flashes and Half Ironmans: Middle-Aged Endurance Athletics Meets the Hormonally Challenged

  How to Screw Up Your Kids: Blended Families, Blendered Style

  How to Screw Up Your Marriage: Do-Over Tips for First-Time Failures

  Puppalicious and Beyond: Life Outside The Center Of The Universe

  What Kind of Loser Indie Publishes, and How Can I Be One, Too?

  Other Books By the Author:

  OMG – That Woman! (anthology) Aakenbaaken & Kent

  Ghosts (anthology), Aakenbaaken & Kent

  Easy to Love, But Hard to Raise (2012) and Easy to Love, But Hard to Teach (coming soon) (anthologies), DRT Press, edited by Kay Marner & Adrienne Ehlert Bashista

  Prevent Workplace Harassment, Prentice Hall, with the Employment Practices Solutions attorneys

  Audiobooks:

  Audiobook versions of the author’s books are available on Audible, iTunes, and Amazon. The Katie & Annalise books are narrated by Ashley Ulery, http://ashleyulery.com.

  Acknowledgements

  My editor is a goddess. Thank you, Meghan Pinson, for making me sound like me, only better.

  The biggest thanks, once again, go to my Cruzans: husband Eric, friend Natalie, and house Annaly. They are the ones who inspired me to dream up stories in the islands.

  Eric gets an extra helping of thanks for plotting, critiquing, editing, listening, holding, encouraging, supporting, browbeating, and playing miscellaneous other roles, some of which aren’t appropriate for publication.

  To each and every blessed one of you who have read, reviewed, rated, and emailed/Facebooked/Tweeted/commented about the Katie & Annalise books, I appreciate you more than I can say. Stephanie, Rhonda, Liz, and Rebecca stand above the rest here. It is the readers who move mountains for me, and for other authors, and I humbly ask for the honor of your honest reviews and recommendations.

  Finally, my eternal gratitude to Eric, Marie, Stephanie, Heidi, Liz, Clark, Susanne, Allie, and Susie for keeping me alive and reasonably sane on the 60-Cities-in-60-Days book tour as we built the audience for Katie & Annalise one town and one reader at a time.