Sarah Spieth and MG for all the . . . well, you know.
Cheri Whitehouse for offshore banking info.
Mud Mymudes for all the botany corrections, beta-reading for accuracy, and dog stuff.
Greg Phelps, MD, for the hospitality in Knoxville, the beta-reading, and invaluable help on the project!
The Beast Claws, best street team ever! You pushed this book without ever reading it. Your trust in me and my stories is humbling.
The Hooligans. You know how much I love you. If this book is a success, then you made it happen.
Let’s Talk Promotions at ltpromos.com. You nearly killed yourselves over this book. I adore you!
Mike Pruette for website stuff, marketing stuff, and the best T-shirts ever!
Joy Robinson for the artwork on the T-shirt and on the website. LOVE the trees!
Janet Robbins Rosenberg, my fantastic copy editor who caught the terrible time line error. A week with two Thursdays . . . I am still shuddering.
Lucienne Diver, my literary agent with the Knight Agency. You believed in this book even when I had given up on it. Thank you. Just . . . thank you.
Jessica Wade, editor at Penguin Random House. There are no words. You gave me time to get this book right. You pushed me and hammered me and then sliced and diced this book and . . . I love it. This book exists because of you. Because you made me make it right.
My thanks to all the wonderful people above. If there are mistakes in this book (and there will be) they are mine alone.