Why You Were Taken

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My thanks: –

To Mr L, for your generous mentoring, and most of all, for giving me the courage to embrace the writing life.

To my writing group, The Rotten Writers, particularly Dave and Shirley, for improving my work.

To my better half, Michael, for allowing me time to write, even when it is not easy, and to my two adorable monsters, James and Robin, who were not yet conceived when this book was.

To Bernadette, Nolakhe, and Thabisa, who took care of said monsters while I scrambled to get the words down.

To my mom, Sue Thiele, unwavering in her love of books (and me).

To my dad, Keith Thiele, and his better half, Gill, for proof-reading the manuscript and weeding out the errors.

To my business, Pulp Books, for bankrolling my writing time.

To Julia-Ann Malone at SAFM for believing in my stories.