This book would not have been possible without the following people:
For reading this story before it was pretty, I thank my daughter Halle, my husband Cary, and my good friend Glenn Rogers.
Thank you to my agent extraordinaire, Gordon Warnock, who resurrected this story from the archives and believed it could make it into the world.
Thank you to the amazing crew at Blackstone Publishing, which includes Addi Wright, Josie Woodbridge, Lysa Williams, Celia Johnson, Daniel Ehrenhaft, Levi Coren, Alenka Linaschke, Nicole Sklitsis, Rebecca Malzahn, and Rachel Sanders. Your guidance and input were invaluable, and each of you was a joy to work with.