Acknowledgements
I wish to express my immeasurable thanks to my editor, Pat Van Wie, for caring as much about this book as I do. I am enormously grateful to the entire Bell Bridge Books Team—Debra Dixon, Deborah Smith, Brittany Shirley, Danielle Childers, and everyone else laboring behind the scenes—for their wisdom, diligence, and commitment to their authors. Finally, and without irony, I wish to thank my previous publisher for setting me free.
About Judith Arnold
Judith Arnold can’t remember a time when she wasn’t making up stories. Her older sister taught her how to read and write by the time she was four years old, and she’s been at it ever since. A detour in college, thanks to a charismatic professor, led her to spend most of her twenties writing plays, which were professionally produced around the United States and in Canada. But she eventually returned to her first love—prose fiction—and sold her first novel, Silent Beginnings, shortly before her thirtieth birthday. (She found out she was pregnant with her first son the same week she made her first sale. Both the book and the baby were October releases. She and her husband nicknamed the baby “Noisy Beginnings.”)
Since that first sale, Judith has sold more than eighty-five novels, with more than ten million copies in print worldwide. She’s been a multiple finalist for Romance Writers of America’s RITA ® Award and the winner of RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Awards for best Harlequin American Romance, best Harlequin Superromance, best Series Romance and best Contemporary Single Title Romance. Publishers Weekly named her novel Love In Bloom’s one of the best books of the year, and her novel Barefoot In the Grass has appeared on recommended reading lists at hospitals and breast cancer support centers.
A native New Yorker, Judith lives near Boston. She considers her sons her two greatest creations, but she’s pretty proud of all her books, too.
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