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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

As always, many people aided in the research for this book. Any errors or omissions, however, are my own. My sincere thanks go out to, in alphabetical order: Lisa Avila, Barbara Buchanan, Rick Dalessio, Bernie Druffel, Jake Druffel, Mary Guidry, Erika Iiams, James Nolting, Sam Nolting, and Wayne Stinnett, for their help with trucks, guns, farm life, campus life, military life, bad guys, good guys, fighting, driving in the Idaho winter, and hitting the ditch.

Thanks to my awesome critique group: Lisa Avila, Barbara Buchanan, Carol Chappell, Mary Guidry, Kathy Harward, and Bob Pryor, for telling me what I needed to hear even when I didn’t want to hear it.

Thanks, also, to my editors at Montlake Romance. To Maria Gomez for reaching out and taking a chance on me, and to Charlotte Herscher for guiding me toward the best book I could write.

And as ever, thanks to my husband, Rick Nolting, for keeping me fed, keeping me sane, reading the book first, and telling me to stop working and get some sleep.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rosalind James, a publishing industry veteran and former marketing executive, is the author of more than a dozen contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels, set both in the United States and New Zealand. Originally from North Idaho, she now lives in Berkeley, California, with a husband, a Labrador retriever named Charlie (yes, she named a character after her dog, but she swears she didn’t realize it until later), and three extremely spoiled, non-egg-laying bantam chickens.