For Mr. Wayland and the bug, for being the reason I love Christmas again.
Many thanks to my long-time editor, Meghan Miller, without whom I would be lost. Thanks also to Caitlin Fry, who creates my covers beautiful and puts up with my sometimes random and often vague feedback and still manages to make sense of it. And a big thanks to Chelsea Kuhel, who generously took this project on at the last minute.
As always, Stephanie Kay gets the award for the world’s most patient cheerleader and whip-cracker (depending on the day). And Victoria Morgan get the award for ruthlessly seeking out and destroying passive voice and excessive adverbs better than anyone. My stories are always, always better because of her hard work. She is also responsible for the idea for the candy cane striped…er…gift within this story, though certainly not on purpose.