Huge thank you to my editor, Judy Clain, who once again blessed my work with her intellect, her sharp sensibility, her humor, and something elusive that feels like magic.
Thank you to my agents, Michael Carlisle and David Forrer, for making every dream I had as a writer come true.
Thank you to the great Michael Pietsch, Terry Adams, Craig Young, Ashley Marudas, Lauren Hesse, my publicist Katharine Myers, Brandon Kelly, Bruce Nichols, Jayne Yaffe Kemp, Tracy Roe, Anna de la Rosa, Mariah Dwyer, Karen Torres, and Sabrina Callahan. I appreciate every single brilliant thing you do on my behalf, which is a lot of things!
To my home team: Rebecca Bartlett, Debbie Briggs, Wendy Hudson, Wendy Rouillard, Liz and Beau Almodobar, Margie and Chuck Marino, Katie and Jim Norton, Sue and Frank Decoste, Linda Holliday, Melissa Long, Jeannie Esti, the fabulous Jane Deery, Julie Lancia, Deb Ramsdell, Deb Gfeller, Anne and Whitney Gifford, David Rattner and Andrew Law, Manda Riggs, Helaina Jones, Heidi Holdgate, Matthew and Evelyn MacEachern, Holly and Marty McGowan （Marty made the book!）， Richard Congdon, Angela and Seth Raynor, Rocky Fox, Julie and Matt Lasota, and the talented Jessica Hicks. What would I do without you?
Thank you, Timothy Field, my sweetest friend, for loving me through the crazy.
Thank you to my family: my mother, Sally Hilderbrand, as well as Eric and Lisa, Rand and Steph, Todd, and Doug and Jen. The biggest hug of all goes to my sister, Heather Thorpe, for being my fiercest champion, my best friend, and the “woman who walks me home.”
Finally, gratitude to and for my children: Maxwell, Dawson, Shelby, and, now, Alex. The greatest privilege of my life is watching you mature into adults. I love you all beyond the beyond—and every word I write is, as ever, for you.
About the Author
Elin Hilderbrand has lived year-round on Nantucket Island for twenty-nine years. In the summers, she has a house filled with young adult children, and she loves cooking, going to the beach in her Jeep, and riding her Peloton. The Hotel Nantucket is her twenty-eighth novel.