Taken Home (Lone Star Burn) (22 page)

Acknowledgments

A special thanks to my editors: Karen Lawson, Janet Hitchcock, Marion Archer, Krista Stroever, and Christopher Werner.

My street team, Ruthie’s Roadies, for keeping this journey fun.

My husband, Tony. I couldn’t do this without him.

My children for being patient with the crazy schedule writing sometimes demands.

About the Author

Ruth Cardello was born the youngest of eleven children in a small city in northern Rhode Island. She lived in Boston, Paris, Orlando, and New York before coming full circle and moving back to Rhode Island, where she lives with her husband and three children. Before turning her attention to writing, Ruth was an educator for twenty years, eleven of which she spent as a kindergarten teacher. She has written sixteen previous novels, several of which made the
New York Times
and
USA Today
bestseller lists.
Taken Home
is the third book in the Lone Star Burn series.