Acknowledgments

SO many people to thank:

Thanks to my sister and first reader, Elizabeth Carter.

Thanks to my first editor, Karin Gutman.

Thanks to Emily Farrell. So far you’ve shown me the attic at Tyler House, put me up for two weeks while I searched for a summer sublet in L.A., and copyedited my first novel. You are in every way that counts such a good friend.

Thanks to Jessica Sinsheimer for picking me out of the slush pile.

Thanks to Sarah Jane Freymann for being such a wonderful agent and also for taking me out for the best lunch I’ve ever had in New York City.

Thanks to Maya Ziv for coaching me through all the details.

Thanks to Dawn Davis for being the editor of my dreams and so easy to talk to!

Thanks to my father for always proudly quoting the limerick I wrote in third grade every time I see him.

Thanks to my extended family for being there after my mother could not.

Thanks to Marilyn Friedman and the many good folks at Writing Pad in L.A. for encouraging me through my first rewrite.

Thanks to Gudrun Cram-Drach for reading everything I send her, asking the right questions, and always inspiring me to write some more.

Thanks to my mother-in-law, Mary Zimmerman, for taking care of Betty during my negotiations with the muse and also for making coffee whenever I say I’m too tired to write.

Thanks to Monique M. King-Viehland for being the best friend in the history of ever and for always jumping up and down with me whenever I get good news, even though we are both grown and live thousands of miles apart. You remain the most amazing woman I know.

Most of all, thanks to my husband, Christian Hibbard. It’s your love that makes me believe in true romance and it’s your support that makes me brave.

Also, thank YOU so very much for reading this story. I hope you liked it.

100% Love,

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