Cover Reveal-Then There Was You by Melanie Dawn

Chris King never saw it coming…

In some ways, closing the book on my first love was the worst day

of life. I was gutted, and yet I was completely at peace with my

decision. I walked away knowing that I did what was best for her,

unsure if I could ever recover. Little did I know that one concert

would change the entire course of my life. There I stood, signing

autographs and snapping pictures with fans when a familiar face

in the crowd catapulted my mind back in time—Salem Honeycutt,

once a balm to my pain and a calm in my storm. Yet again, her

smiling face gave me hope. Only one question remained: did she

still see me as a wayward teenage boy who was completely off

limits, or could she see the man I'd become…focused and driven,

yearning for another chance at love?

For Salem Honeycutt, postpartum bliss seemed like a lie...

No one told me that I’d hate my baby when I brought her home

from the hospital. No one told me that I’d want to put a pillow

over my husband’s head and smother him in his sleep. No one told

me that I’d want to slap every person who gave me the ever-so-
cliché advice to ‘cherish every moment.’ No one told me that I’d

despise my life the minute I became a mother, but I did. Then I

met Chris King, the kid who made me want to pull myself up from

the dark recesses of my mind and face each day. This kid, whose

passion for life and talent for music, touched my soul deeper

than I could ever touch his. Chris gave me a reason to live. I was

once affectionately known as Mrs. H., Chris’s juvenile detention

counselor. This is our story.



Melanie Dawn is a thinker, a dreamer, and a hopeless romantic.

When her head isn't in the clouds, she spends her time as a jack

of all trades to her family. Melanie resides in the hills of North

Carolina with her husband, her three children, and her cat. She

enjoys lazy summer afternoons cruising around the lake on the

pontoon boat with her family.

Melanie graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in

Psychology and earned her MA in School Counseling from

Appalachian State University. She spent the first six years after

graduate school as a middle school counselor. Those were years

she deems as some of the best years of her life. That is, until she

had children of her own. The last seven years have been spent as

a stay-at-home mom. She has learned some tough life lessons,

like what the inner absorbent pellets of a diaper look like scattered

in the washing machine. She has also learned the strength of the

willpower of a two year old lacking a nap. Through it all, Melanie

has learned how to roll with the punches and appreciate the time

she has been able to spend at home with her children.

Now that her last child has started Kindergarten, Melanie is ready

to add a new chapter in her life. That chapter begins with her debut

novel—So Much It Hurts.