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Dear Reader,

I read a lot because I’m in love with words. I love old, used cookbooks where someone has written notes in the margin. I love diaries and letters and newspaper so that the past comes alive for me.

Besides writing for Mills & Boon, I’m an English professor. I read a lot there, too. I have students who, by far, write better than me. I’ve read about midnight border crossings (I’m in Arizona) and about midnight escapes from the Lost Boys of Africa. I’ve read about near-death experiences, special-needs children and about the path back to sobriety. Best of all, I’ve read about the dreams and goals of our future generation. I’ve also read a few things I wish had not wound up under my red pen. But, while the idea for What Janie Saw came to me one evening after a marathon grading session, I’ve never read a murder confession.

Like Janie, I entered teaching through the back door. But it doesn’t matter how you came to the classroom—it matters what you do while you’re there. Janie makes all the right moves. She cares about her students even while trying to pursue her own dream. I think, for Janie, chasing the dream, questioning the dream and then reinventing the dream is what makes her grow. See, her childhood wasn’t of the soil that allowed dreams to grow. She had much to overcome.

Rafael Salazar is too busy being sheriff to have dreams. He has to save the world. His world is the small town of Scorpion Ridge, Arizona. Soon he has to save Janie, and she could become his world if he’s smart enough to realize it and change.

My story is complete fiction with the world of what-ifs, flawed people and love triumphing. It’s about hope and change and romance.

My editor, Adrienne Macintosh, is a master, full of ideas for cementing conflict. Mills & Boon Heartwarming is an awesome place to be. If you’d like to meet some of the Heartwarming authors, please visit www.heartwarmingauthors.blogspot.com. If you’d like to learn more about me, please visit www.pamelatracy.com. I love to hear from readers!

Pamela