My grateful thanks:
To Jennifer Gibbs, Jennifer Turner Hall, Jean Wagner, Camille Guthrie, Andrea Codrington Lippke, and Penny Ghartey, for encouragement, accountability, and probing reads.
To Cameron Henderson-Begg, for insights sharp and gentle, and for cricket tutelage.
To Nell Mead, for advice medical, historical, and dramatic.
To Joseph Housley, John Collins, and the hive mind of Twitter friends, for help with language, period, law, munitions, sport, and custom.
To Alice Tasman, for warmth, realism, ambition, and vision.
To Jonathan Galassi, for enthusiasm and belief.
To Christopher Richards, for the most excellent, sensitive, and challenging editing I could imagine.
To the Reverend Andrew C. Mead and the Reverend Victor Lee Austin, for inspiration, in every sense of the word, more than they know.