ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My family, Cynthia Swain, Cameron Swain, and Matthew Swain

My agent, Kathy Green

My editor, Matthew Martz

S. J. Rozan, for sharing her magic

Warren Hecht, for getting it all started

Constance Smith, my sister

Ret. NYPD Det. Matthew O’Donnell

Elizabeth Avery, Sue Foster, Jackie Freimor, Ann and Mark Gallops, Helen Graves, Sunil and Marcela Gulati, Sue Lund, Michelle Menzies-Abrash, Mandy O’Donnell, Ilaria Papini, Lorena Vivas, and Jane Young—for their friendship, insights, and talents

Sera and Tom Reycraft and all of my Benchmark Education colleagues—for their much-appreciated support