Author’s Note
Thanks for checking out By My Side! I hope you have already read its precursor, Broken…
if not, you should definitely go back and read that first, or you’re going to
get quite the shock to your system when you start this one.
This is the first sequel I’ve written
in a few years, and when I started it in March of 2004, shortly after finishing
Broken, I honestly had no idea how it was going to go. I was afraid, for one, that I was going to
run out of ideas – after 150 chapters, what more could there be left to
write? As it turned out, plenty. And not just romantic stuff either. I originally plugged By My Side as a romance,
much more so than Broken. And that’s
true – it is a romance. But it’s not all romance. You can’t put
your two lead characters through physical and emotional hell and then expect to
have them just skip off into the sunset together and live happily ever after,
with no repercussions of any kind. It’s
just not realistic. Once I realized
this, my concept for BMS changed.
This sequel is not just a story about
the romance between Nick and Claire that began at the end of Broken. It’s a story about two people living in the
aftermath of the disease that brought them together, but also nearly killed
them. I hope you enjoy it.
Happy reading!
~Julie