ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I’d like to thank my wife Anne for being understanding and encouraging while I spent many hours writing. She also provided insightful editorial comments for this book.

The characters in this book are composites of my family, my friends, and my imagination. I’d like to specially acknowledge my sons Yli and Cael, my daughter-in-law Jessica, and my granddaughters Kaia and Mira for being great reference characters.

My editor, Jesse Winter from Duo Storytelling, was extremely helpful with his edits and thoughtful comments. He was very professional, encouraging, and a pleasure to work with.

The wonderful cover design was created by johnny_an at 99Designs. This design used the following photographs:

Model skull of human and bones form pit with dark light by Suthiporn at Adobe Stock. Cave-cavern-nature-stones-rocks by Dmitrijs Bojarovs at Pixabay. Foggy monsoon season in Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, India by artqu at Adobe Stock.

The author photograph was created by Erin Moore at Mercy Street Studio, Eliot, Maine.

I’d also like to acknowledge Draft2Digital for creating an amazing platform for self-publishing.

This book was written by a human.