Come and Find Me (22 page)

Acknowledgments

This book was inspired by the idea that someone could spend her waking hours “living” in a virtual world. For orienting me to that world and showing me its possibilities, special thanks to Jeff Bardin, Olin Sibert, Char James-Tanny, Jim Freeman, Yael Even-Levy, and Michelle Chambers.

Thanks to others who shared their expertise: George Fournier, Cathy Cairns, David Cairns, Doug Lyle, MD, and Anthony Sammarco.

Thanks to fellow writers who provided valuable critiques of the manuscript: Jan Brogan, Linda Barnes, Roberta Isleib, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Naomi Rand, Donna Tramontozzi, and Barbara Shapiro.

A special thanks to Pam David-Braverman for her generous contribution to National Braille Press and allowing me to pinch-hit for the incomparable Robert B. Parker.

Thank you, Jerry Touger, my patient husband, for reading and encouraging.

There can be no smarter or warmer agents than Gail Hochman and her international colleague, Marianne Merola. For savvy and insight and patience, thanks to an extraordinary editor, Katherine Nintzel. Also, many thanks to the rest of the folks at William Morrow, especially Danielle Bartlett.

About the Author

HALLIE EPHRON
is an award-winning mystery reviewer for the
Boston Globe
. She is the author of
Never Tell a Lie
, which was a finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award and was made into the film
And Baby Will Fall
for the Lifetime Movie Network, and
Writing and Selling Your Mystery
, which was nominated for both an Edgar and an Anthony Award. Ephron lives near Boston, Massachusetts.

www.HallieEphron.com

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Credits

Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

Cover photograph © by Cornelia Doerr/Getty Images

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

COME AND FIND ME
. Copyright © 2011 by Hallie Ephron. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition March 2011 ISBN: 9780062078629

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ephron, Hallie.

Come and find me / Hallie Ephron.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-06-185752-2

1. Recluses—Fiction. 2. Sisters—Fiction. 3. Missing

persons—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PS3605.P49C66 2011

813’.6—dc22

2010037260

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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