Acknowledgments

I am profoundly grateful to the people who helped me during the writing of this story. Thank you, Crissy, for forty-seven years of love and support, and also for your vigilant proofreading. Thank you, Dr. Kate MacKenzie, my incredible daughter, for your proofreading, and thank you Andrew MacKenzie, my sword-fightin’ son, for your thoughts and suggestions. Thank you, Loren Preuss for your proofreading and good ideas—I expanded the Blue Horse chapters at your suggestion. And thank you, Mad River Boys, for many years of rollicking good fun. Mad River, Forever!