Dedication

This book is dedicated to all the young girls who long to emerge from their cocoons as independent women. May your wings be strong and may you safely reach your happy ever after.

My thanks and appreciation to the staff of the Arlington Hotel; to Nalissala Allan, Park Guide at Hot Springs National Park; to Jared Kizzee and Gabe Caver of Range USA and to Charles Welshans for being my gun gurus.

Thank you to Melanie Noto, my Editor; my formatter, Julie L. York: and my Cover Artist, Sheri McGathy.

Thank you also to my husband, Mike, for cooking dinner, shopping for groceries, and having the patience to put up with a wife on a book deadline, who forgets to shop or eat and even lets us run out of toilet paper.