What Light

The Nice List

Ben Schrank, publisher, and Laura Rennert, literary agent

for being with me wholly since Book 1, and for being my insecure-author therapists as needed

Jessica Almon, editor

when I questioned, you believed; when I was done, you rightly pushed for more “It reminds me of a Taylor Swift song!”

Mom, Dad, and Nate (and my cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, neighbors, friends…)

for my childhood of holiday magic

Luke Gies, Amy Kearley, Tom Morris, Aaron Porter, Matt Warren, Mary Weber, DonnaJo Woollen

my guiding angels

Hopper Bros.—Woodburn, OR

Heritage Plantations—Forest Grove, OR

Halloway’s Christmas Trees—Nipomo, CA

Thorntons’ Treeland—Vancouver, WA

for tours of your Christmas tree farms and answers to professional, personal, and silly (but legit!) questions