Wild Country

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My thanks to Blair Boone for continuing to be my first reader and for all the information about animals, weapons, and many other things that I absorbed and transformed to suit the Others’ world; to Debra Dixon for being second reader; to Doranna Durgin for maintaining the Web site and for all the information she shared with me about dogs and horses; to Patricia Briggs for her contribution toward my knowledge about horses; to Janet Chase for showing me around Reno and the surrounding area and helping me find inspiration for my frontier town; to Adrienne Roehrich for running the official fan page on Facebook; to Nadine Fallacaro for information about things medical; to Ann Hergott for her help with the map; to Jennifer Crow for being a sounding board for the story during our dinner-and-book-binge evenings; to Anne Sowards and Jennifer Jackson for the feedback that helps me write a better story; and to Pat Feidner for always being supportive and encouraging.

A special thanks to the following people who loaned their names to characters, knowing that the name would be the only connection between reality and fiction: Kelley Burch, Douglas Burke, Candice Cavanaugh, Janet Chase, Jennifer Crow, Roger Czerneda, Merri Lee Debany, Michael Debany, Nadine Fallacaro, James Alan Gardner, Mantovani “Monty” Gay, Lois Gresh, Jana Paniccia, Craig Werner, Dawn Werner, and John Wulf.