Fourth Comings_ A Jessica Darling Novel - Megan McCafferty [128]
The countless readers and writers—most of whom I’ve never met—who offered candid words of encouragement. Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella, whose e-mails made me laugh when nothing seemed funny. Rachel Cohn, Sarah Dessen, Julia DeVillers, Piet Hut, Erika Rasmusson Janes, Jeannie Kim, Carolyn Mackler, and Monica Ryan deserve special thank-yous for wisdom and general “awesomeness.”
Dr. Helen Fischer, anthropologist and author of several books, including the fascinating Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love, for developing the real science behind the fictional iLoveULab. I’ve never met you, but I would love to have lunch with you someday.
Justin Timberlake, who brought the sexy back during the intense revisions phase. I’ve never met you either, but…
My mom and dad, who prove that parenting doesn’t suddenly end when your kid turns eighteen.
The Fitzmorris and McCafferty families, who always come through for me.
CJM and CJM, for everything, forever.
About the Author
Megan McCafferty is the author of the hit Jessica Darling novels Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, and the New York Times bestseller Charmed Thirds.
ALSO BY MEGAN MCCAFFERTY
Sloppy Firsts
Second Helpings
Charmed Thirds
Sixteen (edited)
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2007 by Megan McCafferty
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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CROWN is a trademark and the Crown colophon is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCafferty, Megan.
Fourth comings…ovel / Megan McCafferty.—1st ed.
1. Darling, Jessica (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Young women—Fiction. 3. Periodicals—Publishing—Fiction. 4. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. 5. Chick lit. I. Title.
PS3613.C34F68 2007
813'.6—dc22
2007010818
eISBN: 978-0-307-40563-0
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