Also, none of the events of this book occurred and the overwhelming majority of the characters never existed. So there’s that.
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Acknowledgments
TO THE LORD OUR G-D, King of the Universe: why can’t You let me write on Saturday, huh? But I love You anyway.
All praise not normally reserved for a Higher Power of unfathomable nature goes to Brandy Scott, my best friend and editor, not always in that order.
Roger Savage worked very hard and at very last minute to clear up some American-isms in the manuscript and doing other editing that I could not have managed myself.
To my parents, thank you for keeping faith that there would be a fourth book in the series, even when I had almost given up.
Jane Austen deserves credit for writing one of the greatest novels of all time and allowing it to lapse into public domain.
To my Sensei, for providing most of the inspiration for Mugin.
Thank you to all of the patients of my father’s office in Rutherford who keep buying my book and even telling my father that they liked it in a follow-up visit, with an occasional note to pass on the message to me. You should know that you’re not actually required to buy your dermatologist’s daughter’s books to get a good appointment.
Aliza Gellar, my current roommate, gets an acknowledgment for moral support, which is what I say when I give my roommate a freebie for helping pay the utility bills.
A number of people at Ulysses Press need to be thanked: Keith Riegert, Bryce Willett, Karma Bennett, Claire Chun, and the additional behind-the-scenes people I don’t know the names of.
Hillary King Chapin came through at last minute with some important Latin translations, and I’m very grateful for that.
To all of my readers: the original readers at Fanfiction.net and the various Jane Austen fan-fiction sites, thank you for reading from beginning to end, and for your continued support. Thank you to all of my Facebook friends, especially the ones who are also my Farmville friends and fertilize my virtual crops. Two birds with one stone right there.
Carey Bligard, Regina Jeffers, Abigail Reynolds, and Lynn Shepherd deserve thanks for helping me with some last-minute historical research.
And if there’s anyone I forgot, I’m sorry. And thanks for whatever I’m thankful for.
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About the Author
MARSHA ALTMAN exists more as a philosophical concept than an atom-based structure existing within the rules of time and space as we know them. She is the author of four books set in Jane Austen’s Regency England as well as the editor of an anthology of Pride and Prejudice – related fiction. When not writing, she studies Talmud and paints Tibetan ritual art, preferably not at the same time. She lives in New York, New York, and does not own any cats.
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