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DEDICATION

To Ray Bradbury, friend, extraordinary writer, mentor and benefactor of Mr. Electrico’s blessings. Your encouragement and faith in me are my blessings.

To Hannah M.G. Shapero, friend, artist, my first reader and surprise copy-editor, whose father, Harold Shapero, is a composer of classical music. Thanks for helping me portray Terence in a more realistic fashion.

To Ben Jeapes, friend and writer, whose editorial guidance was both brilliant and gentle with understanding and insight.

To Lynn W. Perkins, friend, artist and encourager, whose superb cover illuminates Claiming Her.

To my father, Irvin Wm. Brahen, my mother, Sarah Snyder, and my sister and brother-in-law, Michelle and Larry McHugh. They helped me to stay grounded in the real world, while building my creative ones.

To my son, Brian Octaviano and his family for teaching me that youth need not always follow in the parents’ footsteps, as Hermann Hesse’s novel, Siddhartha, so eloquently expresses.

To my friends, Linda and Ron Bushyager, for your “tech support” and your loving generosity. And to the Philadelphia SF, F & H Writer’s Workshop, many thanks.

With much love to my husband, Darrell Schweitzer, who helps me to control the fictional worlds that bang at the doors and windows of my mind, asking to be let out, who insists that they (and I) be patient, while properly shaping them.

A creative life is sometimes a river flowing onward. It is sometimes a railway station, where you sit dejectedly, thinking you have missed your train, but there is always another train. And so I thank Elizabeth Counihan, editor of Scheherazade magazine, for suggesting I send Claiming Her to Ben Jeapes, and I thank Ben himself for having faith in the novel and me and helping me to make it the best it could be. And I thank John Betancourt of Wildside Press, my publisher, for being there for me.

This novel is dedicated to all of you with much love.