Epilogue

It got put on hold for a year, the finishing of her book, and it sat on her laptop waiting until finally under pressure from her publisher she finally took it up once more. It took another three months before she was finished, between her sons and her husband Brennan had not found either time or inclination to write, but when she re-read her unfinished manuscript she found the will and desire to complete her story.

For several years Kathy and Andy's adventures and partnership had been her outlet for feelings and fantasies about her partnership with Booth, and when that partnership had shattered, it had been Kathy and Andy who'd given her a place to pour all her heartache and despair. Now that she had everything, two perfect children, and Booth – hers and only hers in all ways imaginable, it seemed only fitting that she complete her book and give to Kathy and Andy the ending she herself had been granted.

Her editor called at three in the morning the day after she handed the final draft in. Crying.

And the book, it hit the bestseller list within five days. And it stayed there almost a year.

'Broken Bones' outsold every other book published that year, by a margin of three to one, and awards . . . it won them all.

The reviews were nothing short of glowing, but Booth's favorite went like this:

Temperance Brennan has proven herself a master storyteller with 'Broken Bones', a tale of murder and mystery that transcends its genre to become a pure and unadulterated work of art. The familiar characters of Kathy Reichs and Andy Lister leap in this volume right off the page as their relationship goes this time into uncharted territory, destructing and then being reborn, like a phoenix from the ashes, to become a truly epic love story, one that will have you yearning for the like of it in your own life. A remarkable book from first page to last . . . you will finish it and only want to read more . . .