Acknowledgments

I’m grateful to Mitch Krupp for helping me build my own home-based business and to Carmen Burt for answering my questions on administrative-assistant courses. My thanks also goes to my editor, Ruth Linka, and to Orca Book Publishers for their commitment to literacy through the Rapid Reads program. I’m proud to be a Rapid Reads author.

While the oatmeal doily cookie recipe at the end of the novel is my own, based on cookies my mother made, I also found inspiration from the lacy oatmeal cookie recipe found in The New Basics Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins (Workman Publishing, New York) and from Maria Gray’s YouTube video titled “Oatmeal Lace Cookies.” I hope you enjoy making your own.