Acknowledgments

I would like to thank:

Mary Keeley, Colleen Coble, Erica Vetsch, Ronie Kendig, and my

Books and Such Family.

Uncle Dave, for being the inspiration for “Charlie.” You are my forever cowboy.

My sisters, Anne, Kara, Sarah, and Laurie.

You are all my muses and my best friends.

My sister, Halee. You are Clairee to my Ouiser.

We just belong together.

And Nathan.

It’s a true act of love to sacrifice so much

when to you, fiction is a foreign language.

Your love is cherished.