BARBARA J. TAYLOR was born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She sets her novels in the hometown she loves and fills them with miners, evangelists, vaudevillians, nuns, gangsters, prostitutes, widows, musicians, dreamers, and a seer or two. She is the author of Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night and All Waiting Is Long. Rain Breaks No Bones is the final installment in her Scranton Trilogy.

I am donating a portion of the proceeds from this novel to the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation. My nephew Jimmy has Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), also known as brittle bone disease, a genetic disorder that makes bones so fragile they break easily.

The Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation is the only voluntary national health organization dedicated to improving the lives of people living with fragile bones through information and research to find a cure. If you’d like to support the work of the OI Foundation, you can donate through their website at www.oif.org.

—Barbara J. Taylor