The Broken Ones (56 page)

I’d like to thank Tania and Nicole Brancato for their invaluable thoughts.

Sharon and Malcolm Hinton deserve special thanks both for checking details against their own experiences and for their precious friendship.

My deepest thanks are for my family, who tolerated my long absences while this book came to be: my divine children, Max and
Poppy, and my beautiful wife, Sarah, who makes everything easy—I adore you.

Finally, I’d like to thank you, the reader, for taking the time to pick up this book. I hope you’ve forgiven its flaws (they are all mine!) and enjoyed it.