After Alice Fell(82)

Danielle Marshall, your vision for Lake Union is amazing. I am so honored to be part of this group.

Gabe Dumpit, you rock. Enough said.

Faceout Studio, what a cover! I am in awe.

Much thanks to Production Editor Laura Barrett, Copyeditor Laura Whittemore, and Proofreader Patty Ann Economos for such detailed attention and reminding me that the devil’s in the details.

Rebecca Stockbridge and the New Hampshire State Library, thank you for all the amazing details and primary sources you dig up for me. You are a true rock star.

Many thanks to these amazing historians and archivists whose input was invaluable to this story: Terry Reimer and the Museum of Civil War Medicine; New Hampshire Historical Society; Michelle Stahl and the Monadnock Center for History and Culture; Deb Salisbury and the Mantua-Maker series; Robbin Bailey and Ashley Miller, Concord Public Library.

KC Taylor for giving wise advice right when it was needed. Jennifer Springsteen for early story guidance. Kate Genet, I apparently can’t start or finish a book without you. Thanks for the descriptions and book club questions and writing-in-general emails. Cathy Yardley and Rock Your Plot for giving story first aid when I thought I’d have to tear up every page and start over. Alan Hlad for our ongoing plot accountability and weekly check-ins—we both finished!

Thea Constantine and Alida Thacher for volunteering as first readers who waded through a remarkable mess, gave me a life raft, and helped Alice find her voice.