Acknowledgements

Thank you to my son, Oskar, and my husband, Goran, for being early readers and for giving excellent (and brutally honest) critiques. To the team at Tundra: Kelly Hill for another wonderful cover; Sue Tate, who expertly helped me get rid of the potholes; and especially Kathy Lowinger, who saw the diamond in the rough and who worked tirelessly to help me tell the story I wanted to tell and tell it well.

Thanks also to my agent, Hilary McMahon, for her passion, kindness, and smarts.

In the years since I wrote this book, George up and got married, something he said he’d never do, and he didn’t even check with me first. But how can I not approve? The woman he married is incredible – and affirms my belief that Mr Clooney is a man of substance and integrity.