Amanda Eyre Ward is the author of Sleep Toward Heaven, How to Be Lost, Love Stories in This Town, Forgive Me, Close Your Eyes, The Same Sky, The Nearness of You, and The Jetsetters. Her bestselling novels have been featured in People, the New York Times, and more. Amanda’s work has been optioned for film and television and translated into fifteen languages. She lives in Austin, Texas, and Ouray, Colorado. Amanda currently writes every morning and spends afternoons with her children.

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