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First of all, thanks to my incredible editor, Kristin Daly Rens, for her guidance, enthusiasm, and good humor. Kristin, I don’t know how you do it, but every time you read one of my drafts you come up with suggestions that get me thinking about the story in new ways. I’m lucky I get to work with you—and believe me, I know it.

Many thanks to the entire team at Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, including Alessandra Balzer, Donna Bray, designer Michelle Taormina for a beautiful design, Emilie Polster and Stefanie Hoffman in marketing, and Caroline Sun in publicity. To Kelsey Murphy for her painstaking attention to detail and brainstorming with Kristin on the perfect first word for the title. To copy editor Veronica Ambrose and production editor Bethany Reis, who deserve a medal for the amount of fact checking they had to do.

I’m grateful to everyone at Adams Literary, including Samantha Bagood for her website design skills and Josh Adams for his business savvy. Most of all, I owe a big thanks to my agent, Tracey Adams. Tracey, you know that I call you “Dream Agent,” and the title is well deserved. I’m so glad you’re my “mother hen,” as you like to say.

Thanks to my mom, Lynn Brostrom Blankman, who’s been my first reader since I was old enough to hold a pencil. I don’t know if I would have had the courage to pursue my writing if you hadn’t encouraged me. Thank you.

To Sara B. Larson and Sara Raasch, for critiquing early drafts. To Chin-Lin Ching, MD, and Scott Alexander Mooney, MD, for their advice on Daniel’s compartment syndrome. I’m especially grateful to Dr. Ching for talking to me at length about Daniel’s physical limitations and the emotional toll an injury like his typically takes on patients. Thanks to Esther Benoit, PhD, LPC, for teaching me about abnormal psychology and family dysfunction. To Victoria Belfer Zabarko, for talking candidly to me about your experiences with anti-Semitism during your childhood, and for showing me how being persecuted for your beliefs can actually deepen your commitment to your faith. Daniel owes many of his opinions to you. Thanks also to the YA Valentines, YA Series Insiders, and OneFourKidLit—I’m lucky to be a member of these talented groups of authors. Thanks to Patri and Anasheh of the Fantastic Flying Book Club Tours for putting together my blog tours.

Thanks to my husband and best friend, Mike Cizenski, for his support. Mike, you listened to me go on and on about Nazis and
Ringvereine
without complaint, cooked delicious dinners when I
was on deadline, and offered me endless encouragement. I couldn’t have written this book without you. Thanks to my daughter, Kirsten, who makes me want to be brave. And to my dad, former reporter Peter Blankman, for raising me and my brother, Paul, on stories about the
Minneapolis Star
newsroom. I’ll never forget your telling us about your assignment covering Ku Klux Klan meetings in the Northeast. Your passion for journalism helped inspire me to create Daniel.

I’d like to acknowledge my coworkers at the York County, Virginia, Public Library System, especially library director Kevin Smith and branch supervisor Norma Colton for their support, scheduling guru Cathy Davis for always taking my writing responsibilities into account, and interlibrary loan manager Pat Riter for tirelessly tracking down every source I requested.

And many thanks to the librarians, booksellers, teachers, bloggers, and readers.