ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My thanks to Blair
Boone for continuing to be my first reader, to Debra Dixon for
being second reader, to Doranna Durgin for maintaining the Web
site, to Nadine Fallacaro and Julie Green for answering questions
about things medical, to Jennifer Jackson and Anne Sowards for
their continued enthusiasm for the Black
Jewels stories, to David Rapkin and John Sharian for
bringing the characters to life in the audio book, and to Pat
Feidner just because.