Acknowledgements

The team at Deranged Doctor Designs (DDD) for amazing cover design work and all the marketing extras. Thank you for your beautiful work and support.

Allison E Wright for wonderful editing work to make my sentences smoother and my intentions clearer.

Thanks to my readers for helping find a title for this book – particularly Amanda Price and Annemarie King whose suggestion won out over all the others.

My parents, Francine and Ken Smith. Amazing, supportive people who I don’t thank often enough. Thanks for keeping me grounded and being the best grandparents ever.

As always, Temwa for being my biggest supporter.

And to all my writing friends, in various forms, who give me space and support to continue to write and are willing to listen to me talk about writing and my characters for hours...