Acknowledgments

A very special thank-you to Debra Mullins for taking me under her wing when I had no idea how and when to use a comma and for gently suggesting that I forget there’s a semicolon key on my keyboard because I clearly had no idea how to use it (still don’t!). You will always be the honorary president of the Juan Carlos fan club…should ever such a thing exist.

Charity Hammond and Alison Diem contributed so much to this book and my journey as an author. I am forever grateful to you ladies for your friendship and advice.

This truly is the book of my heart and I’m so very thankful for whichever stars aligned just right to make my editor, Stacy Abrams, pluck these pages from her slush pile and decide they should be a published novel. Thank you for seeing the diamond in the rough and helping me polish it to a high shine.

And to my husband and sons who put up with a lot of frozen pizza and takeout so that I can write my stories. We’re a little bit closer to that swimming pool, boys.