Acknowledgments

I cannot even begin to thank all of my Irish rellies and friends for including Mark and me in your holiday festivities and for sharing your family traditions. I’ve enjoyed tasting my first Christmas pudding, pulling my first cracker and wearing its crepe paper crown, and attending my first St. Stephen’s Day celebration rather than fighting crowds hunting for after-Christmas bargains. Thanks a mil for making our holidays so memorable. I look forward to many more!

I would like to thank my husband, Mark, and all my friends and family for believing in me and supporting my writing in so many ways. I would have given up years ago without your encouragement. Thank you to Nikki Ford and Elizabeth Wright for your in-depth feedback, helping to make this a stronger book. Thanks to Sandra Watson for providing professional insight into narcissistic personality disorder and the damaging emotional effect narcissists have on their victims. To Judy Watson for reading the book numerous times. And to Laura Iding—if it wasn’t for all of our brainstorming sessions over wine and dinner, I might still be plotting book one.

To Dori Harrell for your fab editorial skills and for always exceeding my expectations. To Chrissy Wolfe for your final proofreading tweaks. To Lyndsey Lewellen for another incredible cover and for capturing the spirit of Caity. And to Amy Atwell at Author E.M.S. for a flawless interior format and for always promptly answering my many questions.

Thanks to my brilliant fans, who began this adventure with Caity in Flying by the Seat of My Knickers and who continue to follow her journey around Europe!