ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For everyone who is reading this—thank you. Thank you for your support, for your kind words, and for loving my characters as much as I do!

To Alison Dasho, thank you for all the opportunities and the support and for all your suggestions. It’s been such a joy working with you! Thank you to Megan Mulder for getting me the contract for this book. Thanks to the entire Montlake team for all that you do for me and my books (Anh, Kris, Kelsey, Le, Laura, and Lauren)! A special shout-out to those Montlakers who hang out with me at conferences and let me chat their ears off—Adria Martin, Jillian Cline, and Colleen Lindsay. And a special thank-you, as always, for Charlotte Herscher—for finding the story I want to tell and for helping me make everything better.

Thanks to Erin Dameron Hill for the beautiful cover, and thank you to all the proofreaders and copyeditors (including, but not limited to, Hannah, Laura, and Claire).

Thanks to the writing friends who support me, chat and hang out with me, and generally make my life better, both personally and professionally. (I’m not naming everyone here for fear of leaving someone out, but you guys know who you are!)

Thank you to Sarah Younger just for being awesome and for totally getting my snark and believing in my dreams, and to everyone at the Nancy Yost Literary Agency for supporting me.

For my children—I love you three thousand.

And Kevin, I may run out of ways to say it, but I’ll never stop loving you.