The Vanishing Year (28 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Mark Gottlieb, without whom this wild ride would not have been possible. Seriously, best agent ever. Endless thank-you to the Atria team, especially Sarah Branham and Sarah Cantin for your smart guidance and advice.

For my writing posse: Kimberly Giarratano, Ann Garvin, Elizabeth Buhmann, Sonja Yoerg, Mary Fan, Aimie Runyan, and all my Badasses: you have all read and brainstormed and been my saving grace and my cheerleaders and my tough critics when I needed it. To my Tall Poppy Sisters: LOVE YOU ALL, poppy power.

For my beta readers: Jamie Raintree, Rachel Jarabeck, Bridget Lynch, Sarah DiCello, Betsy Kirkland, Becky Riddle, Abby Polozin, Stephanie Bradley. Your feedback was invaluable. Thank you Teri Woods for your terrifying understanding of sociopaths and Carl Palmeri who gave me the ending from a small piece of undertaker trivia.

Gratitude to my entire family, who are the most supportive people I've ever seen: Mom and Dad, Meg, Becky, Molly, Mary Jo and Jeff, George and Lori, Judy and Audrey, Dottie, Chuck and Lauren, who cheer me on relentlessly. You must all be exhausted.

And finally, and foremost, thank you to the loves of my life: Chip, Abby, and Lily. You've certainly taken the backseat to this writing gig on many a day, with minimal complaining. You're my biggest fans and it means the world to have you in my corner.

Love my village.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Moretti, Kate, author.

Title: The vanishing year : a novel / Kate Moretti.

Description: New York : Atria Books, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015050466

Subjects: LCSH: Upper class women—Fiction. | Secrecy—Fiction. | Identity (Psychology)—Fiction. | California—Fiction. | New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Romance / Suspense. | FICTION / Contemporary Women. | GSAFD: Romantic suspense fiction. | Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3613.O7185 V36 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at
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ISBN 978-1-5011-1843-2

ISBN 978-1-5011-1844-9 (ebook)