The Gates of Hell

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Writing a book is never a solitary endeavor. So first and foremost I must acknowledge my family for giving me the time and the energy to finish this novel. Thank you, Sherry, for watching the kids a bit more (not to mention driving through Book One!), and thank you, Mom and Dad, for coming out to help when I’d reached the end of my rope. Kids, I owe you so much for understanding that Daddy had to work.

Friends gave the encouragement and the feedback I needed to cross the finish line. Catherine Bollinger continues to be the finest alpha-and-omega reader I could ask for, and Kelly DeVries is owed much for helping talk me through my moments of writer despair—with bonus Roman troop movements along the way! Kayla Moore made the last push possible, and David Allen kept the wolves at bay when I needed it most. My writer friends Mary Robinette Kowal, Ilana Myer, and Harriet McDougal were lights in times of darkness. Amy Romanczuk is the best unpaid cheerleader imaginable. Thank you all.

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