Great thanks goes out to my family: Darci, Taylor, and Micah Rubart for their unwavering belief in me. (Double thanks to Taylor for being the first to read the first draft of The Long Journey to Jake Palmer, and for giving me excellent feedback.)
Also, thanks to Allen Arnold, Ron DeMiglio, Mick Silva, and Thomas Umstattd Jr. for amazing brainstorming sessions about the paths this story could and should venture down.
Thanks to my editors, Amanda Bostic and Erin Healy, for yet again being absolutely brilliant at what you do. This story would be a shadow of itself without you.
And thanks to Jesus for allowing me to once again enter this playground called telling stories.