This one’s for my dad. We miss you.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

Authors do not squeeze writing into their “spare time” without their families feeling it, so I want to thank my husband John and three wonderful sons for their enthusiasm and support, even when I spend the entire weekend hunkered over the computer or am only half at the dinner table because my other half is wandering around in la-la land. Thanks also to my editor, Maggie de Vries, who makes the hard work of revision almost painless and claims to cry at the sad parts of my stories.