Third Grave Dead Ahead

Acknowledgments

As always, my deepest and most heartfelt thank-you to Jen and Alexandra, for making the sun shine and the moon glow. You have my heart forever. And to everyone at Macmillan and Janklow & Nesbit. I’d point fingers, but I’m sure I’d miss some deserving unsung hero in the process. You all rock so hard.

To my family, including but not limited to spouse, parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters, first cousins, second cousins, first cousins once removed (I have no idea what that means), nieces, nephews, and my wonderful, wonderful family of friends. I have to thank especially my sister Annette, who is demanding royalties because I keep publishing tidbits of her life, my brother Luther for letting me use his name even though I didn’t actually ask beforehand, and my brother Quentin for being the bestest most pimpin’-est pimp ever!

Thank-yous must go out to my critique goddess, Tammy, the incomparable Celeste Bradley, the beautiful Dan Dan, and the knockout Kit, who read this book at the speed of light to give me much-needed feedback. And, of course, thank you to the goddesses of LERA and the Dorothys of the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood. Where would I be without you? Especially Liz. Thanks for naming my book!

And thank you so much to all the readers and reviewers who love Charley and Reyes’s story as much as I do. May their adventures be many and their love everlasting. After, of course, I put them through the wringer.

A special thank-you to Mike Davidson for Garrett’s list and for doing his darnedest to get me on Oprah. I’m sure my absence was an oversight. Thanks for giving it your all.