Hi!
This is the part where I thank the talented and selfless people who helped make this book a reality. A part I really like, but since you may not recognize the names, let me tell you what they did for me …
For the folks listed below, and because they’ve been so amazing, virtual balloons, chocolate cheesecake, and miniature horses all around! Yeah!
A heartfelt thanks to Georgia McBride and everyone at Month9Books for loving my story and giving me the chance to share it with others.
To my editing team: Georgia McBride, thank you for your wisdom, direction, advice and encouragement, and Cameron Yeager, who put up with me, told me the truth, and helped make this book so much better than it would have been without her, thank you. You both rock!
To J. A. Belfield, Stephanie Judice, Colleen Spencer, Blake Reece and Jennifer Jenkins, thank you a million times over, for reading (and rereading—ad nauseam). There is simply no way this book would exist without your creative input, patient support, and friendship. Try not to think about all those times the revised manuscript showed up in your inbox again, the hand holding you did, the many panic attacks you warded off … Just know that I love you all so much. It’s impossible to thank you enough.
To Jamie Arnold: thanks for being a fantastic publicist and all around great person, (the girl’s so sweet, I want to dunk her in my coffee). Also, doxies rule!
To the always amazing Jennifer Million: thanks for not plotting my murder when I email with too many annoying questions. Thank you Bethany Salminen, for treating my comma phobia. Your eagle eyes are the best! And again, to the amazing Georgia McBride for my drop-dead gorgeous covers.
Thanks to my entire family, for your faithful support.
To my husband, love of my life, and best friend, thanks for every single minute.
Maddie Mae, for never doubting.
Thanks to Ronen, for modeling the joy and wonder of simply being alive.
… And Manny.
And to you, wonderful, lovely reader, thank you so much for buying and reading this book. I wrote it for you. I love inventing people and places, creating adventures and romances, and then telling you wild stories about what happens next.
Thanks for letting me.
XOXO
Julie