Lorin Oberweger, editorial consultant, cheerleader, and friend, for your expert advice and support throughout the writing of The Sister Wife. Thank you for being there for me.
Jim and Tori Thomas, for providing this writing gnome a place to write her tome! And to think you decorated C2 just for me. Your Western memorabilia couldn’t have been a more appropriate setting in which to write this historical novel. You two are the greatest!
My daughter Amy Martinez, whose daily phone calls never fail to uplift me. Amy, you are a portrait of love in action. It was never more evident than when you and Mark dropped everything to fly across the country to be with me at Mom’s passing midway through the writing of this book. Also, a heartfelt thanks to my daughter Melinda Head, whose love and prayers are always with me—and who’s always ready to celebrate a book’s completion with delightful spa days spent together!
A special thanks to dear friends Linda Udell, Marihelen Goodwin, and Tom and Susan Johnson. Your love never wavered, your prayers never ceased, and your encouragement gave me the strength I needed to continue writing even during my journey through some of life’s most difficult emotional places. I love you all!
Big hugs of thanks to my NC family. I’m blessed by their love and their amazing feedback as my first readers—especially my sister-in-law Kathi and my brother Dennis, who also keeps my mind sharp and fingers flying, and Kristin, whose unsinkable spirit always inspires me. Can’t wait until Leap of Faith publishes and we take our first skydiving “leap” together.
Last, but not least, a heart of gratitude to my husband, Tom, resident historian and chef extraordinaire, whose love and support are without equal. Your historical expertise and literary feedback bring my novels to life, and your knowledge of American history, especially the history of the American West, provides the best possible backdrop detail for my stories. Thank you, especially, for encouraging me to attend the Oregon-California Trails Association meeting with you in Yuma last spring—where the seeds of writing another historical series set in the American West took root.
About the Author
DIANE NOBLE is a former double finalist for the prestigious RITA Award for Best Inspirational Fiction, a finalist for the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and the Reviewers’ Choice Award, and a three-time recipient of the Silver Angel Award for Media Excellence. With more than a quarter million books in print, Diane lives in southern California, with her husband. www.dianenoble.com
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Other Novels by Diane Noble
The Veil
When the Far Hills Bloom
The Blossom and the Nettle
At Play in the Promised Land
Heart of Glass
The Last Storyteller
The Butterfly Farm
Tangled Vines
Distant Bells
Through the Fire
Angels Undercover
The Missing Ingredient
Home to Briar Mountain
A Matter of Trust
The Master’s Hand
Written as Amanda MacLean
Westward
Stonehaven
Everlasting
Promise Me the Dawn
Kingdom Come
Novellas/Stageplays
Come, My Little Angel
Phoebe
Credits
Cover photographs: woman © Ashley Lebedev/Trevillion Images; field © Rudyanto Wijaya/Shutterstock Images
Copyright
THE SISTER WIFE. Copyright © 2010 by Diane Noble. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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