Acknowledgements

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my fiancée, Tina Wakeham, and our daughters, Stacie and Hollie, for their encouragement and support during the writing of my first book. Tina, there would be no book but for the encouragement of you when I would get frustrated and disheartened. My proofreaders, Tina Wakeham, Karen Crockwell, and Wanda Ronayne, your collective criticism forced me to be a better writer. Thank you. A big thank-you to Rosie Mullaley for assistance with the epilogue. To Garry and Jerry Cranford, and the crew at Flanker Press, for giving an author a break in getting his first book published, thank you. A big thank-you to my editor, Susan Rendell. I learned so much from you and thoroughly enjoyed working with you. You were a pleasure to work with.