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Acknowledgements

When I was five, I wanted to be an artist. I had no idea what that was, but that was my answer whenever someone asked me what I wanted to be. By the time I was 14 I had read my way through my local library and written a novel – and put it in a closet somewhere. I lived in a small west-coast town and publishers existed in a place far away from my life. Probably on Mount Olympus or Asgard or some other strange place.

After 25 years as a writer, I know a bit more. I know that it’s not possible even for the most solitary writer to work in a vacuum. You need help to get your manuscript, your baby, out in the world. The generosity I have met on this journey has been overwhelming and I have so many to thank.

First, I want to thank Charlotte Ledger and her magnificent team at One More Chapter. I’m forever grateful to Charlotte for not liking anything I sent her, and for asking me if I wanted to write a contemporary romance set in Norway instead.

I want to thank editor and writer Julia Williams for putting me in contact with Charlotte and as such getting the snowball rolling.

Thanks goes to my lovely proofreader/editor Sue Davison, who helped me weed out all the things I thought were proper English, but weren’t. Thank you to Clare Abbott who also proofread the manuscript – it’s scary writing in a foreign language! Most of this book was written in her lovely apartment in London. I had a wonderful time there.

One of the first things I did when I moved to Wales for two years, was join the Romantic Novelists’ Association. The writers in the Association, and the brilliant and talented writers in my South and West Wales chapter, made me feel welcome from the first moment. Probably the best writers association there is.

Thank you also to my Aunt Berit who reads everything I write, even in English, and thinks it’s quite good, so there you go.

And last – with all my love and gratitude to Maria and Anan who has supported me all these years, never giving up on me even when I was whining the most and pushing me to be the best I can be.