I try to reply.
“Don’t make him talk.” Tanechka takes out a tube of lip moisturizer and smooths it onto my lips.
I feel light. Like a weight off.
Suddenly I know things will turn out with these people I love at my side. I believe that we’ll find Kiro. I believe in our family.
I believe that someday Tanechka and I will go lie on the hillock in Donetsk and visit with her sisters there and her goats.
I have faith in her. I have faith our love.
Peace comes over me as I give myself up to her. She takes my hand and I close my eyes, awash in love.
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Acknowledgements
I want to thank my husband for his help and patience while I was way too consumed with writing this book, and early brainstorming sessions walking around the lake. I also want to hugely thank my wonderful critique partners – Amber Belldene, Joanna Chambers, Carolyn Jewel, Katie Reus, and Skye Warren. These authors provided smart, generous feedback and ideas, and read this book when it was in utter scary mayhem. Thank you also to Christin Ostheimer, who helped me immensely with Russian language and culture. Editor Deb Nemeth provided brilliant developmental editing and copy editing. Sadye of Fussy Librarian did an incredible job of proofreading and so far beyond. (Any mistakes are my own last minute changes.) I’m also massively grateful to you wonderful bloggers, Facebook book-lovers, tweeters, and readers who so generously pitched in to bring love to this series. I want to kiss you all!
Thank you also to Heather Roberts of Social Butterfly PR—you are keeping me sane in so many ways! And thanks to BookBeautiful for the gorgeous cover and BB eBooks for the wonderful formatting. Kisses to my reader friends in the Annika Martin Fabulous Gang. I am just so grateful to be surrounded by such an amazing community of readers and writers.
About Annika
I love writing dirty stories about dangerous criminals, hanging out with my man and my two cats, and kicking snow clumps off the bottom of cars around Minneapolis. I’ve had tons of jobs: factory worker, waitress at a zillion different places, shop clerk, advertising writer. Animals are a huge passion of mine, especially whales and lost dogs. I like to run and read books in bed, and I spend way too much time in coffee shops. In my spare time I write as the RITA award-winning author Carolyn Crane.
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