Redemption

Acknowledgments

To Michelle: Decker is back. If only I had his memory, you wouldn’t have to get on me for all the things I forget to do.

To Michael Pietsch, for your excellence.

To Andy Dodds, Nidhi Pugalia, Ben Sevier, Brian McLendon, Karen Kosztolnyik, Beth deGuzman, Albert Tang, Bob Castillo, Kristen Lemire, Anthony Goff, Michele McGonigle, Cheryl Smith, Andrew Duncan, Joseph Benincase, Tiffany Sanchez, Morgan Swift, Matthew Ballast, Jordan Rubinstein, Alison Lazarus, Rachel Hairston, Karen Torres, Christopher Murphy, Ali Cutrone, Tracy Dowd, Martha Bucci, Rena Kornbluh, Jeff Shay, Lukas Fauset, Thomas Louie, Sean Ford, Laura Eisenhard, Mary Urban, Barbara Slavin, Kirsiah McNamara, and everyone at Grand Central Publishing, for always being so supportive.

To Aaron and Arleen Priest, Lucy Childs, Lisa Erbach Vance, Frances Jalet-Miller, John Richmond, and Juliana Nador, for always having my back.

To Mitch Hoffman, for seeing the forest and the trees.

To Anthony Forbes Watson, Jeremy Trevathan, Trisha Jackson, Katie James, Alex Saunders, Sara Lloyd, Claire Evans, Sarah Arratoon, Stuart Dwyer, Jonathan Atkins, Anna Bond, Leanne Williams, Natalie McCourt, Stacey Hamilton, Sarah McLean, Charlotte Williams, and Neil Lang at Pan Macmillan, for being all-around amazing. See you in September!

To Praveen Naidoo and the team at Pan Macmillan in Australia, for taking me to #1!

To Caspian Dennis and Sandy Violette, for being so cool. It was terrific seeing you on this side of the pond!

To Steven Maat and the entire Bruna team in Holland, for your great work.

To Bob Schule, for your wonderful comments and friendship.

To Roland Ottewell, for good copyediting.

To charity auction winners Christine Burlin (Community Coalition for Haiti), Kelly Fairweather (Soundview Preparatory School), Kenneth Finger (Project Kesher), Mitzi Gardiner (Muscular Dystrophy Association), and David Katz (Authors Guild). Whether your characters were good or evil, I hope you enjoyed them. And thanks for your support of such wonderful charities.

And to Kristen White and Michelle Butler, for helping me make the most of every day.