This book is dedicated to my ever patient husband and my not so patient two year old son who managed to survive the month of November with me only being there in body.

To the team at NaNoWriMo (http://www.nanowrimo.org) who came up with the silly idea of writing a novel in a month in the first place.

To all my readers of my blog (http://pewari.may.be) whose constant encouragement and thirst to “find out what happens next” helped me keep dragging the words out.

And to Sylvia, my NaNo coach who kept me on the straight and narrow by constantly ICQing me to check my word count and encouraging me to write “just one more paragraph”.