title: Holding Woman: And Other Stories of Acceptable Madness
author: Kelley Jacquez
description: Kelley Jcquez grew up in a small town in New Mexico. After earning a master's degree in English, she served as adjunct faculty at several California colleges, writing and publishing short stories at the same time. She was awarded a Harper/Collins Fellowship in 1995 and was a finalist at the Utah Writers-at-Work conference in 1997. She then turned to journalism, eventually becoming managing editor of the Business Journal newspaper in Fresno. Her short stories have appeared in multiple literary magazines and two anthologies (Walking the Twilight II: Women Writers of the Southwest [1996] and Fantasmas: Supernatural Stories [2001]). Although she has lived in many places and now resides in Oregon, Jcquez still considers New Mexico home.
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  CONTENTS
  Holding Me
  Prologue
  1. Daisy
  2. Carter
  3. Daisy
  4. Carter
  5. Daisy
  6. Carter
  7. Daisy
  8. Carter
  9. Daisy
  10. Carter
  Epilogue
  What to read next
  About the Authors
  Hating You Preview
  
  HOLDING ME
  
  A BLACKTHORN ELITE SPINOFF
  Crazy Daisy is what they used to call her, beautiful but deranged. She was the prey to every bully in
  our school… including me.
  After graduating Blackthorn, I thought I’d never see her again, then she walked into the fundraiser my
  father was putting on and I couldn’t help but be drawn to her.
  I’d always wanted her, but never acted on my feelings.
  Now was the time to claim her, but there was something standing in our