Seeing the Light (A Marie Jenner Mystery Book 1) (44 page)

Now, to family. Jess, thank you for reading the very first raggedy ass version of this novel from beginning to end, even though you had finals and had to study. You helped me realize I just might have something worth keeping. (And your first cover idea is still hanging in my office, as inspiration.) Thank you Jon, for convincing all your friends that they just might like reading my stuff as much as you do. Thank you Mom, for listening to me ramble on, hour after hour, about my imaginary friends and all the trouble they cause. And thank you Harold, for giving me the space to actually be a writer, this time, for real. I love you guys!

Special thanks to Guillem Mari for the amazing cover art, to Lucia Starkey for the cover layout, and to Ryah Deines for the interior layout.

And finally to Margaret Curelas, publisher, and one of the bravest women I know. Thanks for wanting to see this story out in the world as much as I did.

Biography

E.C.Bell (also known as Eileen Bell) has had short fiction published in magazines and several anthologies, including the double Aurora Award winning Women of the Apocalypse and the Aurora winning “Bourbon and Eggnog.” When she’s not writing, she’s in Edmonton, Alberta, living a fine life in her round house (that is in a perpetual state of renovation) with her husband, her two dogs, and her ever hungry goldfish.