Thanks to Kayla W. for helping me understand what it’s like to grow up in foster care; Jake Keller of Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue for explaining how to tell if what you’ve found in the forest is a human bone; Leslie Budewitz, a mystery author with a blog on the law and fiction, for detailing what would happen to the inheritance of a minor in foster care; and Holly Hertel, a Jackson County reference librarian, for describing the library’s microfilm offerings.
I’m the luckiest girl in the world because this is my twentieth book with my agent Wendy Schmalz, and my sixth with editor Christy Ottaviano. Other wonderful folks at Henry Holt include April Ward, Jessica Anderson, Christine Ma, Molly Brouillette, Kathryn Little, Lucy Del Priore, Katie Halata, Holly Hunnicutt, Allison Verost, and Angus Killick.