ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to my agent, Eddie Schneider, and my editor, Quressa Robinson, for helping bring this book to life.

Thanks to David Bowles for correcting the Nahuatl employed in the novel.

Thanks also to my mother for letting me watch horror movies late at night, thanks to my great-grandmother for narrating horror movies to me, thanks to my children for bearing with me when I write and drift far away.

Thanks finally to my husband, who is my first reader and for whom I write. He is the salt in every dish I taste.