Thank you, James Roy Daley, for your enthusiasm and for believing in this book. I am so excited to be a part of the Books of the Dead family. Thank you, Joanne McKenna-Howard and Bill Howard at Small Dog Design for giving Mountain Home the cover I dreamed of!
Finally, my deepest thanks go to my wife, Heather MacLeod. Simply put, if it weren’t for her, I couldn’t write. She’s my muse and my ideal reader. She’s my inspiration for the women in this book who do what has to be done no matter how hard it is. And most of all, she’s my best friend. “O wonderful, wonderful, most wonderful, wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping!”
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