Acknowledgments

No book is completed by the writer alone, and I do have a number of people who are owed my thanks in helping bring this one to life:

My editor, Allison Byers, for her meticulous attention to every single word. One day you will break me of my infatuation with the word “that,” I have no doubt.

My critique partners, Susan Jessen, Kym Lucas, and IreAnne Chambers, for their helpful suggestions and gushing in all the right places.

The lovely and talented Passionate Critters, who always know just the right thing to say when I get stuck or I doubt myself, and they totally rock at blurbs.

The garden of wonderful authors and staff at The Wild Rose Press.

The gifted and always supportive members of NEORWA, who once again helped me celebrate the end of a book.

My family and friends, who never stopped telling me to hurry up and finish this book so they could read it already.

And my husband and son, who now seem to take my ignoring them in favor of writing as a matter of course. I adore you both.