There really is a Blossom, Texas, and a Weezy’s Restaurant. Mr. B., our son Lemar, and I enjoyed a little research trip to that area before I started writing this story. We had planned to stop at Weezy’s, but it was closed when we were there. Hope Creek and the waterfall are just places that I felt should be near Blossom, so I took the liberty of putting them there.

I’ve approached the delicate subject of bipolar disorder in this story and the effect that it has on a family if it goes undiagnosed and untreated. I hope I’ve done justice to it.

As always, I have many people to thank for their help in taking this from a rough idea to the book you hold in your hands today. My thanks to all of the following awesome people: My agent, Erin Niumata, and my agency, Folio Management. My editor, Alison Dasho, at Montlake, and my team there. My developmental editor, Krista Stroever (I hope you never retire). My family, for all their support. My husband, Mr. B., who has my undying love still, even after fifty-five years. My readers, who continue to support me, write notes to me, and tell their friends and family about my books. Y’all deserve so much more than just a simple thank-you!

Happy reading to all y’all.

Carolyn Brown

About the Author

About the Author

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Carolyn Brown is a New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, as well as a RITA finalist with more than one hundred published works to her name. Her books include romantic women’s fiction, historical, contemporary, and cowboys and country music mass-market paperbacks. She and her husband live in the small town of Davis, Oklahoma, where everyone knows everyone else, knows what they are doing and when—and they read the local newspaper on Wednesdays to see who got caught. They have three grown children and enough grandchildren and great-grandchildren to keep them young. For more information, visit www.carolynbrownbooks.com.