Thank you, dear readers, for choosing to read my book. I am indebted to each one of you. Much time, research, and effort went into writing and publishing it for your enjoyment.
Humongous thanks to all the fabulous folks at Harvest House Publishers, foremost Kim Moore. My gratitude to each person at Harvest House who helped craft it, and to the sales team. Thank you to my excellent editor, Jean Kavich Bloom.
Thanks to talented Amish author Linda Byler for her encouragement and fact verification. Thank you to friends Sam and Susie Lapp in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; Amish Quilter Emma Stoltzfus of ES Quilts; and many other Amish who have helped me but prefer to remain anonymous. Thank you, friend Herb Scrivener, owner of Zook’s Fabrics in Intercourse, Pennsylvania.
Others who have helped me are Rudy DeLaurentus, president of the Lancaster Italian Cultural Society; Jamie at the Quarryville Fire Station, Lancaster County; and Allegra Johnson, adult services librarian at Lancaster Public Library.
Thank you to Linda, for describing her remarkable journey through a two-week coma.
Many thanks to my dear cousin Alex McBrien, who saved her family’s horses and her father’s Arabian stallion and prized Black Angus bull from a horrific barn fire and kindly described the chaotic scene to me.
I’m grateful for my faithful writing/critique group: Kathleen Kohler, Roberta Kehle, Judy Bodmer, Thornton Ford, Paul Malm, and Peyton Burkhart.
Always, I’m thankful for my stupendous literary agent, Chip MacGregor.