I would like to thank the following people for their invaluable help and support:
My editors, Carrie Feron and Erika Tsang, for their kindness, cheerleading, and wonderful ideas.
My agent, Damaris Rowland, for her faith and wisdom.
Martha Kirkland, for always knowing the answers to my research questions.
Jenni Grizzle and Wendy Etherington for keeping me going and always being up for champagne and cheesecake.
Brenda D’Alessandro, for being lots of fun, the world’s best shopper, and for walking three hundred city blocks without complaining (sort of).
Thanks also to Kay and Jim Johnson, Kathy and Dick Guse, Lea and Art D’Alessandro, JoBeth Beard, Ann Wonycott, and Michelle, Steve, and Lindsey Grossman.
A cyberhug to my Looney Loopies Connie Brockway, Marsha Canham, Virginia Henley, Jill Gregory, Sandy Hingston, Julia London, Kathleen Givens, Sherri Browning, and Julie Ortolon, and also to the Temptresses.
A very special thank-you to the members of Georgia Romance Writers, JoBeth Beard, Ana Payne, Judy Wilson, and Jeannie Pierannunzi.
And finally, thank you to all the wonderful readers who have taken the time to write or e-mail me. I love hearing from you!