Accidental Bride by Cristina Lollabrigida

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, thank you to Crazy Maple Studios for creating the platform and inviting me to become a visual story writer in 2021. Accidental Bride has over 100k reads on the Chapters-Interactive Stories app. Feel free to connect with me @Lollafiction.

Thank you to my early readers for both their love and criticisms. You helped shape this story, and I hope I have done justice to Alessandra and Drake’s story.

Without authors like Sophie Lark and the team of Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti, Accidental Bride wouldn’t be here. Their mafia romances introduced me to this genre.

My hometown Chicago inspired many of the locations in this story.

Thank you to K.B. Barrett Designs for the beautiful cover designs and graphics. Also, for leading me down the inspiration path to continue this series.

Thank you to Kat’s literary service for their awesome editing work.

Thank you to my bomb proofreader, Sarah EA Hart. I’m so sorry for giving you a heart attack by submitting book one when you didn’t realize it ended on a cliffhanger. I hope readers have this same reaction and can’t wait for more.

Thank you, Jason, for being my romance-loving friend and not being embarrassed to read the spicy scenes and offer feedback from the male point of view.