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Thom gave me so much information about submarines I felt guilty not using more of it. Marcus answered random questions about military terminology at all hours.
The Eden garden is loosely based off the Sepulveda Garden Center just north of Los Angeles. I spent many hours walking back and forth through the garden plots, occasionally asking questions of different folks, and getting answers that ranged from enthusiastic to mildly horrified. There were also a few odd looks as I bounced myself against the back fence again and again.
Any mistakes or flaws are entirely my own, some deliberate for narrative reasons and some because I wasn’t clever enough to understand what was being explained to me.
David and John both looked at an early draft and caught a lot of things that my outline-scarred eyes could no longer see.
My agent, David, set things up so I could continue the Ex series with a little break to write The Fold.
My editor, Julian, is clearly the most patient man in the publishing industry. He forced his way through a barely-over-the-outline-breakup draft of this book, then gave me a chance to turn it into the (hopefully) much more entertaining book you’re holding.
Finally, many thanks to my lovely lady, Colleen, who reads early drafts, indulges my long rants with absolutely no references, puts up with my whining and anxiety, makes sure I don’t forget anything, and somehow sees all of this as some kind of a positive in her life. No, I don’t know how, either. But I’m very thankful and happy for it.
—P.C.
Los Angeles, October 21, 2015
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Table of Contents
Other Titles
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
A Quick Note About Time
Prologue: Now
Survivor’s Guilt: Then
Chapter Two: Now
Chapter Three: Now
Chapter Four: Now
Chapter Five: Now
Chapter Six: Now
Chapter Seven: Now
Chapter Eight: Now
Chapter Nine: Now
Chapter Ten: Now
Chapter Eleven: Now
Point of View: Then
Chapter Thirteen: Now
Chapter Fourteen: Now
Chapter Fifteen: Now
The Honeymoon Is Over: Then
Chapter Seventeen: Now
Chapter Eighteen: Now
Chapter Nineteen: Now
Chapter Twenty: Now
Opportunity Rocks: Then
Chapter Twenty-two: Now
Chapter Twenty-three: Now
Chapter Twenty-four: Now
Chapter Twenty-five: Now
Chapter Twenty-six: Now
Chapter Twenty-seven: Now
Chapter Twenty-eight: Now
Chapter Twenty-nine: Now
Chapter Thirty: Now
Making the Tough Call: Then
Epilogue: Now
Acknowledgments