Independent publishing brings you up close and personal with your books, and the team of folks who helps you make them better. My team for this reprint was large, talented, funny, fun, and hard-working.

To Ky Moffet, my second-printing editor, thanks for the massive effort of pulling this manuscript out of a rough scan and returning it to human-readable text, and for then editing that text to remove almost of the bugs… and some errors that I wish had been bugs (but that were my mistakes that stealthed their way past pro editing in the first commercial printing).

To my manuscript bug-hunters, who went through with fresh eyes and found the remaining errors that neither Ky nor I spotted:

Charlotte Lenox, William Stilianessis, Ann Beardsley, Sarah Warren, and Amy Laurens

To Tammi Labrecque, who threw herself into helping me find cover art and a cover artist, hooked me up with software to make this book look beautiful, who taught me a ton of things I just did not know about getting books out of mothballs and bringing them back to life, and who has been a reader, a cheerleader, a coach, and a lifesaver, and without whose encouragement, assistance, and massive support this book would STILL be sitting on my hard drive.

And last but in no way least, my Patreon patrons, whose funding pays me monthly to write fiction, and whose notes, comments, and encouragement make every day I work on fiction a joy.

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Julian Adorney, Thomas Vetter, Karin Hernandez, Tuff Gartin, Nancy Nielsen-Brown, Holly Doyne, John Toppins, Rebecca Yeo, Cat, Rebecca Galardo, Eva Gorup, Dragonwing, Zeyana Musthafa, KM Nalle, Michelle Miles, Julie Hickerson, Isabella Leigh, Beverly Paty, Paula C Meengs, Meagan Smith, Misti Pyles, Dan Allen, Mary E. Merrell, Francine Seal, Ava Fairhall, Susan Qrose, Elke Zimoch, Angelika Devlyn, Jim Guererro, Maureen Morley, Heather Wittman, Misty DiFrancesco, Wednesday McKenna, Moley, madamebadger, Lynda Washington, Reetta Raitanen, Anders Bruce, Becky Sasala, Heiko Ludwig, Faith Nelson, Ken Bristow, Jason Anderson, Marya Miller, Brendan Fortune, Jean Schara, Indy Indie, Justin Colucci, Alexandra Swanson, Dawn Morrison, Jane Lawson, Bonnie Burns, Eric Bateman, Resa Edwards, Christine Embree, Patricia Masserman, Claudia Wickstrom, Nan Sampson, Juneta Key, Jennette Heikes, Jess, Amy Fahrer, Joyce Sully, Charlotte Babb, Sarah Brewer, Nicola Lane, Sylvie Granville, Benita Peters, Michelle Mulford, Kirsten Bolda, Amy Padgett

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First Edition Acknowledgements, 2004

Phoebe Rain and her story first woke me from a sound sleep in 1993, and I have been trying to get her on paper ever since.

My deepest thanks to the folks without whom she would not be here yet:

Matthew, who kept believing in Phoebe — and in me — even when I lost faith, and who gave me the courage to hang in

Kerri Walters, who taught me to read tarot back in 1987

Sheila Kelly, who has cheered me on, thumped me soundly, and offered brilliant suggestions through the last four years of working on this

Kay House and Laura Kinsale, who dug into the first draft and came up with cogent commentary on what fit and what didn’t, and why

Robin Rue, my amazing agent, who believed in the book and went to bat for it and won me the chance to make it everything it could be

David Highfill, for looking twice

Claire Zion and David Highfill, for helping me tunnel down and find the real story, and to both for an amazing willingness to keep fighting through a whole lot of layers to get there

Sheila Kelly, Rebecca Deaton, Jean Schara, Jim Woosley, and NymphDuPave, for the last-minute panic-crit

Billy W. Selph, owner of South Georgia Investigations, for technical assistance regarding wiretapping and telephone spy-tech (any mistakes that remain are mine)

And to Claire for winning Phoebe Rain her home at last

Thank you.