Acknowledgments
My deep and unending gratitude to:
My agent, Michael Carlisle, who is a safe place for me in the chaotic world of New York publishing, and Jennifer Weis, my editor at St. Martin’s Press, who knows commercial fiction like nobody else.
Jeff Allen, of the Nantucket Fire Department, for his detailed descriptions of open water rescue.
The women in my rife who have taught me about friendship. (You know who you are.)
Clarissa Porter, for reminding me that I had a literary mind even when I was up to my elbows in baby food, and Mimi Beman, of Mitchell’s Book Comer, for her enthusiastic support of my work.
Heather Osteen Thorpe, always my first reader.
My mother, Sally Hilderbrand, few my roots and my wings.
Most of all, thank you to the men in my life, or should I say, the men who are my life: my husband, Chip Cunningham, and our shining star, Maxwell.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ELIN HILDERBRAND lives on Nantucket with her husband and their three young children. She grew up in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and traveled extensively before settling on Nantucket, which has been the setting for her eight previous novels. Hilderbrand is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the graduate fiction workshop at the University of Iowa.
