Thank you to my amazing agent, Jessica Regel, at Helm Literary, who is not only a literary agent extraordinaire, but also was totally with me on the front lines from the first seed of this idea to the final product. I truly could not do any of this without you. Not to mention, I’m not sure any of my books would have titles if it weren’t for you!
I was lucky that I got to work with three fabulous editors on this book. Thank you to Laura Brown for your early excitement about this idea and for your extremely wise and insightful edits on the first draft. Working with you is always a dream! Thank you to Erika Imranyi for your line edits, which really helped me make this book shine. And thank you to Gaby Mongelli for seeing this book through to publication with such incredible enthusiasm and care.
Thank you to the entire marketing, publicity and sales teams at Park Row for helping this book reach the hands of readers. And thank you to Heidi Gall and Jenny Meyer at the Jenny Meyer Literary Agency for bringing my work to readers around the world.
My family and friends near and far are always an enormous support and I’m so grateful to have them. Thank you to Gregg for always being my person (and my first reader). Thank you to B and O for always bringing me music and laughter—you inspired me to give Gloria a pretty amazing son. Maureen Kilmer and Tammy Greenwood, thank you for always being my virtual office mates and cheerleaders. My friends on the home front who share puzzles, coffee and daily text check-ins—I’m so lucky to have you in the real world when I leave my fictional world for the day. And thank you to my parents, who still get excited to read my books and attend my book events and even drive me to the airport!
Finally, thank you to the booksellers, librarians and readers who have been supporting and reading my books for the last fifteen years now. I am so grateful to be able to write books for a living and to continue to belong to such an incredible community of readers.