Dedication

In memory of my grandmother, Alma “Amie” Anderson Johnson who taught reading and art in the Tigerton School District and who always encouraged me to write.

 

With Special Thanks…

To Gloria, Sally, and DiAnn who encouraged me greatly when I first wrote this story many years ago.

 

And to Susan at PGB who gave me the editorial nudges I desperately needed as I revised & rewrote.

 

Also to the citizens of Tigerton and the Town of Morris—I hope you will suspend your disbelief

as you embark on Tom & Amie’s adventure.

While many of the businesses mentioned in my book

are gone now or never existed, but are pure fabrication,

and while the gas station on the cover looks nothing like the dilapidated structures on Hwy 45 & County J

that were once Cousin Huuva’s thriving filling station,

I hope you will imagine as I did, and fall in love with this story.