If Not for You is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2017 by Debbie Macomber

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

BALLANTINE BOOKS and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Macomber, Debbie, author.

Title: If not for you : a novel / Debbie Macomber.

Description: New York : Ballantine Books, [2017]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016042032 | ISBN 9780553391961 (hardcover : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780553391978 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Man-woman relationships—Fiction. | Life change events—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Romance / Contemporary. | FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Sagas. | GSAFD: Love stories.

Classification: LCC PS3563.A2364 I35 2017 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2016042032

Ebook ISBN 9780553391978

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