Dedication

 

To Myra Su McKay, who is, as yet, too young to read this book but likes space age stuff, and to my Side Trip cover models, Emma White (Jip), Kaylan Hait (Kirsty), Annabella and Emiliano Feeney (Meda and Simon), and their sister, Antonella (my mentally visualized Arlyne model).

 

 

Acknowledgements

 

 

Family support throughout the creative process was very much appreciated, as was input from my editor, Nancy Bell, and beta readers M.D. and Linda Rogers.

Thanks, also, to my cover artist, Michelle Lee, my photographer and touch-up artist, Summer Bates, and my cover models, Annabella Feeny, Emiliano Feeny, Emma White, and Kaylan Hait.