My thanks to the following wonderful people who helped me plan this book:

Darian McFarland, AVTECH Executive Flight Center, Atlanta

The folks at the New Orleans chamber or commerce, the zoning office, and the French market

Ann Doggett, who lives on top of Lookout Mountain

Joanne Amort—historian Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie, Louisiana

Rexanne Becnel, romance writer and resident of New Orleans

Ted Hicks, who actually was a Fulbright scholar in Berlin and supplied the background information; my husband, Pepper, who knows more about World War II than most folks who served in it

And last, but certainly not least, to my critique group who kept telling me I could get it all together and make it work:

Ann Howard White, Lyn Ellis, and Patricia Keelyn.