Beneath a Southern Sky (33 page)

Authors: Deborah Raney

Tags: #Fiction, #Christian, #Romance, #Contemporary, #General

Acknowledgments

I
would like to thank the following people for their roles in helping inspire, research, and write this novel:

Miss Linda Buller, whose many years as a missionary in Colombia were an inspiration to me.

Karen Baehler and Missie Wyatt for sharing their knowledge in the field of veterinary medicine.

Chad Jenkins and his dad, Jerry B. Jenkins, for allowing me to put some of Chad’s childhood wit in Natalie Camfield’s mouth.

Cyndi Kempke for invaluable input on life in South America.

Tim Larson for generous assistance in researching Kansas state law.

The many others who helped with research, including Anthea Burson, R.N., Cathy Hay, R.N., Laurel Hunsinger, Ryan Layton, Dan Miller, and Kristin Sanders, D.A., R.N.

I would also like to thank the many others who read my manuscript in its early stages and offered suggestions and encouragement: Debbie Allen, Kim Hlad, Ramie Schulteis, Terry Stucky, and Bev Sullivan, along with my parents, Max and Winifred Teeter; my sister, Vicky Miller; my daughter, Tobi Raney; and Lorie Battershill, word-smith extraordinaire, encourager, and friend.

My talented editors at WaterBrook Press, Lisa Tawn Bergren and Traci DePree, for sharing the vision I had for this story, and for making my writing so much better than it really is; along with production editor, Laura K. Wright.

Tarl Raney, my firstborn, as well as my Webmaster and computer guru.

And as always, my sweet and talented husband, Ken, who loves me even when I’m on deadline, and who makes our home (and my writing “studio”) my favorite place to be this side of heaven.

Finally, a note to my readers: Although Timoné and Chicoro are based on actual settlements in remote regions of South America’s vast rain forests, the villages, people, and native languages portrayed in my story are products of my imagination.

I’m always delighted to hear from my readers. For more information, or to write me, please visit my Web site at:
http://www.deborahraney.com
.

Other books by Deborah Raney:
After the Rains
A Scarlet Cord
(Available June 2003)
A Vow to Cherish

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Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. Scripture also taken from the King James Version.

The characters and events in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons or events is coincidental.

eISBN: 978-0-307-45938-1

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Raney, Deborah.
    Beneath a southern sky / Deborah Raney.—1st ed.
        p. cm.
1. Remarriage—Fiction. 2. Absence and presumption of death—Fiction.
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3568.
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562
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4 2001
   813’.54—dc21