I would like to thank the following readers for their much appreciated input. Their comments have made this a better book. Any mistakes that remain were introduced by small, pernicious gremlins bent on mischief.
To Jeri Smith-Ready and Aly Parsons for their excellent reading and comments on the full manuscript; to Aly’s Writing Group, for insightful critiques of scenes: Aly Parsons, Simcha Kuritzky, Connie Warner, Al Carroll, J. G. Huckenpöler, John Hemry, and Ben Rosenbaum.
A special thanks to my editor, Jim Minz, for his insight and suggestions; to my publisher, Tom Doherty, Priscilla Flores, Irene Gallo, Jodi Rosoff, Nancy Wiesenfeld, and to all the other fine people at Tor and St. Martin’s Press who did such a fine job making this book possible; to my excellent agent, Eleanor Wood, of Spectrum Literary Agency; and to Binnie Braunstein for her enthusiasm and hard work on my behalf.
A heartfelt thanks to the shining lights in my life, my husband, John Cannizzo, and my daughter, Cathy, for their love and support.