Acknowledgments

I had a fabulous trip to London in fall of 2023 with Alexandra Delany to check out locations for Trafalgar Fine Books and other places for Gemma and the gang to visit. Not everything described in these pages is entirely accurate, but the Wolseley is and we enjoyed a marvelous afternoon tea there.

Thanks go to my good friend Cheryl Freedman who always provides a keen editor’s eye to an early draft, and to Sandy Harding who gently points out all of my errors and omissions. Thanks also to the team at Crooked Lane Books and to my marvelous agent, Kim Lionetti, for their continuing encouragement and support of this series.