Acknowledgements
My thanks to the following people for their invaluable input: to Aly Parsons and Kate Dolan for critiquing the entire manuscript; to P. J. O’Dwyer’s critique group for their insightful commentary on scenes; to the great group of people at Baen Books, my publisher Toni Weisskopf, my editor Tony Daniel, and all the other people who did such a fine job making this book possible. My thanks to my excellent agent, Eleanor Wood, of Spectrum Literary Agency; and my publicist Binnie Braunstein for her enthusiasm and hard work on my behalf.
A heartfelt thanks to the shining lights in my life, my husband John Cannizzo and our daughter Cathy, for their love and support.