Acknowledgements
To USA Today best-selling author Lyndi Lamont for her input on plotting;
To the man in black leathers who parked his Harley Davidson next to my car in front of a pharmacy and graciously answered the questions of an older woman;
To the online Bloodhound breeders who responded to my emails;
To the battalion chief who provided details about a firefighter’s day and other information;
To other hunk firefighters I accosted in grocery stores and on calls to bombard them with questions; and
To the Public Broadcast System, for its program on a southern California search and rescue team.
