This Book. It didn’t come easy. Huge thank-you to those who helped carry me across the finish line. Critters Kimberly Belle and Orly Konig. Beta readers, Fae Rowen and Jenny Hansen. Head cheerleader, Miranda King. Double thank-you to my plot-angel, Orly Konig. And as always, thank you to my friend and lay-editor, Donna Hopson. Oh, and Lorelei Lynn Frank, for letting me use her name.

Thanks to my super-agent, Nalini Akolekar of Spencerhill Associates, and my saving-grace editor, Amy Pierpont.

A big thanks to Carly Simon, whose song “Jesse” was the original inspiration for this book.