Special thanks to our spouses, Susan and Jerry, for their love, support, and for the time and space that writing takes. Thanks to our agent, Louise Quayle, for her encouragement and insightful suggestions, and to our editor, Kelley Ragland, with whom we are so fortunate to get to work.
We are grateful to writing pals Connie Biewald, Donna Tramantozzi, Nancy Tancredi, Lynne Viti, Pat Rathbone, and Maggie Bucholt, and to Hallie’s daughter Molly Touger, for reading the manuscript in progress and offering their honest critiques. Thanks to Lorraine Bodger for her help in shaping the characters and the plot, and to Carolyn Heller for a deft hand with the final polish. Thanks to Sumi Verma, Lissa Weinstein, and Carolyn Ferrucci for their supportiveness, and to Bruce Cohen for helping us shed one pseudonym. And thanks to Buzz Scherr for helping us get the legal details right.