Acknowledgments

Thanks go out to my husband, Steve, and my friends, Leanne Tremblay, Tristan Brand, and Mary Gilbert, who read each and every chapter. I don’t know if I would have finished the book without their feedback and encouragement.

I also have to thank my agent, Carolyn Forde, who picked my manuscript out of the slush pile; Alison Clarke and Adam Wilson, who both saw something in Owl; and my editor, Sean Mackiewicz, for his keen eye and hard work. There are many other people who have mentored and encouraged me in my writing career over the past few years, but this space is small. Thank you all!

Finally, there is one nonhuman without whom this book would never have been written, and that is my cat, Captain Flash, on whom the character Captain is absolutely based.