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  This book was inspired by three things. One, the podcast Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel. Two, the song “Apple Juice” by Jessie Reyez. I wouldn’t have been inspired to write Rosie and Dominic’s journey without the voices of these strong women and the different ways they explore the vulnerabilities and pitfalls of relationships. Not to mention how beautiful relationships can be when treasured accordingly. My third source of inspiration was the book The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. It’s amazing how differently you can see the person you know the best when you consider them a little more closely.

  Thank you to my family; my readers; my editor, Nicole Fischer; my agent, Laura Bradford; and the publicity team at Avon for helping get this book out into the world.

  About the Author

  New York Times and USA Today bestselling author TESSA BAILEY is originally from Carlsbad, California. The day after high school graduation, she packed her yearbook, ripped jeans, and laptop, and drove cross-country to New York City in under four days. Her most valuable life experiences were learned thereafter while waitressing at K-Dees, a Manhattan pub owned by her uncle. Inside those four walls, she met her husband and discovered the magic of classic rock, managing to put herself through Kingsborough Community College and the English program at Pace University at the same time. Several stunted attempts to enter the workforce as a journalist followed, but romance writing continued to demand her attention.

  She now lives in Long Island, New York, with her husband and daughter. Although she is severely sleep-deprived, she is incredibly happy to be living her dream of writing about people falling in love.

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  By Tessa Bailey

  THIS SERIES

  Fix Her Up

  Love Her or Lose Her

  THE ACADEMY

  Disorderly Conduct

  Indecent Exposure

  Disturbing His Peace

  BROKE AND BEAUTIFUL

  Chase Me

  Need Me

  Make Me

  ROMANCING THE CLARKSONS

  Too Hot to Handle

  Too Wild to Tame

  Too Hard to Forget

  Too Beautiful to Break

  MADE IN JERSEY

  Crashed Out

  Rough Rhythm

  Thrown Down

  Worked Up

  Wound Tight

  CROSSING THE LINE

  Risking It All

  Up in Smoke

  Boiling Point

  Raw Redemption

  LINE OF DUTY

  Protecting What’s His

  Protecting What’s Theirs (novella)

  His Risk to Take

  Officer Off Limits

  Asking for Trouble

  Staking His Claim

  SERVE

  Owned by Fate

  Exposed by Fate

  Driven by Fate

  BEACH KINGDOM

  Mouth to Mouth

  Heat Stroke

  STANDALONE BOOKS

  Unfixable

  Baiting the Maid of Honor

  Off Base (with Sophie Jordan)

  Captivated (with Eve Dangerfield)

  Getaway Girl

  Runaway Girl

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  LOVE HER OR LOSE HER. Copyright © 2020 by Tessa Bailey. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Cover design and illustration by Colleen Reinhart

  FIRST EDITION

  Digital Edition JANUARY 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-287286-9

  Version 11122019

  Print ISBN: 978-0-06-287285-2 (paperback)

  Print ISBN: 978-0-06-300435-1 (hardcover library edition)

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