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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Ellen Edwards for her excellent suggestions for improving this manuscript and for the time she put into working with me. She is a fine editor and a true reader’s advocate.

I would also like to thank my agent, Denise Marcil, not only for her enthusiastic representation but also for her encouragement and editorial advice above and beyond the norm. I have been very fortunate in both my editor and my agent.

Thanks to all the people at Avon Books for their part in the publication of Staying Cool, including most particularly Micki Nuding, Assistant Editor. Thanks to my copy editor, Kate Liba; the art director, Tom Egner; the sales and marketing departments; and the representatives on the road.

Ken Hackleman very kindly provided background information on visiting procedures at the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi. Any errors, adaptations, or fictional license with the facts are entirely my own.

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