Deep Blue (31 page)

The Blue Series continues in Book 2,
Blue Crush
. Out May 2014.

Book 3,
True Blue
, is due in late summer 2014. Details forthcoming on her
website
and in her
newsletter
.

I couldn’t have completed a single book without the support of my husband. He entertains the kids when I’m on deadline or need to get an idea down before it drifts into the ether, and places food in front of me when I forget to eat. Thank you, Patrick, for your love and support and for reading my girly manuscripts and finding all the dialogue “a guy would never say.” Along those lines, I’d like to thank my children for making me stop and smell the roses—literally, they shove them in my face—no matter how busy life gets.

A huge thank-you to my agent, Laura Bradford, for her unwavering support of
Deep Blue
and intelligent insights along the path to publication. Heartfelt thanks to my critique partners and beta readers—Lia Riley, Jennifer Ryan, and Marlene Relja—who’ve been there from the beginning. A special thank-you for the expertise and hard work of editors Laura Ownbey and Shelley Bates. No author is complete without her writer’s groups, so a collective thank-you to the Rogue ladies, members of the Silicon Valley RWA, and members of the small but powerfully supportive Monterey Bay RWA group. Last, but in no way least, a huge thank-you to Sarah Hansen of Okay Creations for coming up with the
Deep Blue
cover and series design.

In researching Cali’s unintentional drug overdose and the subsequent fallout, I received valuable assistance from the South Lake Tahoe Police Department, and my friend and ER doctor, Rob Collins. Any errors on these topics are mine alone.

A final thank-you to the rest of my friends and family who’ve supported my writing. Love to you all!