ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many thanks to Bette Golden Lamb for information on the care and treatment of things medical, and to Leila Laurence Dobsha, who always comes through with the answers when I call and yell “Help.”

Gratitude to friends and colleagues Avis Worthington, Barbara Brunetti, Elise Morgan, and Patricia Elmore for encouragement, criticism, and invaluable advice.

Lasting appreciation for my editor, Ruth Cavin, who knows a shaky scene when she sees one and says, Firm up this mess.

Thanks to my daughter, Leslie, for reading the manuscript several times and creating consistency from chaos.

Thanks, gratitude, appreciation, and heaps more thanks to my agent, Meg Ruley, who is absolutely the best. That goes also for Annelise Robey.

Thanks also to Art Gatti, who spotted errors and hard-to-accept time sequences, and threw in a few hellish questions.