ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Writing is a lonely profession. To succeed, we writers must shut out friends and family and concentrate upon the characters we are creating and the lives we are building for them. In all of this, my family and my friends are understanding,sympathetic and supportive. I cannot imagine what I would do without the love and deep caring of my family: Dr. George T. F. Acsádi, my beloved husband, and Peter F. Acsádi, my beloved stepson. And it is with deep love and affection for my dear friends, Dr. Melissa M. Freeman, Jeannetta Harris, Ingrid Kasper, Carole A. Kennedy, and Carol Joy Smith, that I acknowledge their unwavering support.Finally, I thank my fellow writers Audrey Braver, Francine Lange and Gavin Grace for their friendship and for sharing their awesome talent that always amazes me.