Losing a friend | author’s note

I’ve been working hard on my latest book over the past month, and the end is definitely in sight. I hope to have it finished within the next week. Sadly, just as this new book is coming together, I’ve also had the heartbreaking experience of losing a very dear pet. He was ill for some time with an infected tumor, and went downhill very quickly beginning the middle of last week. He stopped eating, and something in his eyes changed. Saturday I took him to be euthanized.

My sweet kitty, Darwin, a...