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Acknowledgments

As always, thanks go to my editor, Deb Werksman, and to all the hardworking people at Sourcebooks, especially Susie Benton, Rachel Gilmer, Eliza Smith, and Amelia Narigon, and the staff in the production and design departments. And thanks also to my fabulous agent, Jenny Bent.

And last but not least, I’m grateful to my husband, Mike, who is always incredibly supportive of my writing, and to our wonderful daughters.

About the Author

Emily Greenwood has a degree in French and worked for a number of years as a writer, crafting newsletters and fund-raising brochures, but she far prefers writing playful love stories set in Regency England, and she thinks romance novels are the chocolate of literature. A Golden Heart finalist, she lives in Maryland with her husband and two daughters.

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