Acknowledgments

Huge thanks to my amazing publishing team: At Midnight Ink, my editors Terri Bischoff, Amy Glaser, and Nicole Nugent; publicist Beth Hanson; cover designer Kevin Brown; and cover illustrator Hugh D’Andrade. At the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency, my agent Jill Marsal, who pushed me to turn an amorphous idea into the Accidental Alchemist mysteries.

This book also wouldn’t exist without the insights of readers Emberly Nesbit, Nancy Adams, Adrienne Bell, Ramona DeFelice Long, and Susan Parman, or the moral support from my local writers group, the Pens Fatales.

And as always, I count my blessings for James and my parents, who have always believed in me, and who only occasionally grumble about the long hours I spend absorbed in my writing.