Acknowledgements

First and foremost, thanks to my parents. I can’t count the number of times I complained about this book, when I was working on the first, twelfth, and twentieth draft, then again when I began edits.

Thank you to everyone at NSP for taking the time and energy to talk plot with me. Thanks to my editor, BJ, for reining in my commas and other grammar nemeses.

Thanks to my friends on Facebook, who saw snippets of the first draft and told me to publish NOW, and tolerated the two-year wait while I battled edits.

And, as always, thanks to my readers, who continually take a chance on my work.