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If you’re one of those people who reads the acknowledgments first—I have been known to do that—I’m not going to give away any spoilers, but the timeline in this book was a little difficult for me to get my head around. You’ll see what I mean when you read it. So the first people I want to thank are my editors Alicia Clancy and Faith Black Ross. Like we laughed about, sometimes it takes a village to get the past and present lined up correctly. Thank you for making this book better, as you always do. I love working with you to make my books the best they can be.

To everyone at Lake Union, the copy editors, author relations manager Gabriella Dumpit, my publicist Ashley Vanicek: You all are the best. The Best. I am so lucky and grateful for you and all you do on my behalf.

And to my dear friend and agent Jennifer Weltz: I love you. I could go on and on, but that covers it.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Wendy Webb is the #1 Amazon Charts and Indie bestselling, multiple award–winning author of seven novels of gothic suspense, including The Keepers of Metsan Valo, The Haunting of Brynn Wilder, Daughters of the Lake, The Vanishing, The Fate of Mercy Alban, The Tale of Halcyon Crane, and The End of Temperance Dare, which has been optioned for both film and television. Her books are sold worldwide and have been translated into more than ten languages. Dubbed “Queen of the Northern Gothic” by reviewers, Wendy sets her stories on the windswept, rocky shores of the Great Lakes. She lives in Minneapolis, where she is at work on her next novel when she’s not walking a good dog along the parkway and lakes near her home. For more information visit her at www.wendykwebb.com.