Acknowledgments

First of all, I have to thank my awesome editor Lydia Sharp, whom without this book wouldn’t be what it is. Thank you so very much for your pushes to get this where it needed to be and for the funny comments that had me laughing throughout! You are a Rockstar!

To my copyeditor Hannah, sending much thanks to you as well for all your catches (err…misplaced modifiers—and what do you mean a stomach doesn’t have legs?) LOL.

To my superhero agent, Fran, who has always fought for my books, and doing all the behind-the-scenes email stuff so I can focus on writing. I appreciate you more than words can say.

I can’t forget my FABULOUS crit group YAFF (YA Fiction Fanatics) who were the first ones to ever read this book. Though it’s been a few years since you’ve seen this story, know that you were the magic makers behind making my words come to life.

And what would a girl do without her loving family? To my son Chase, I appreciate your input when I was going through edits and trying to hash things out. You became my human thesaurus. And to my daughter Erin who video chatted from college with me to help work through a scene when she was trying to do homework of her own. To the rest of my kids: Devin, Alyssa, Kris, and Barrett, thank you for always making life fun, even if it’s via video chat during the coronavirus. Love you guys.

And lastly, to my late husband Tim, who passed away from cancer. Thank you for always loving and supporting any idea I came up with—and for helping to brainstorm the title for this book when I first wrote it. I can’t believe you’ve already been gone for a year and a half. But I know you’re watching over us…