"Atlantis Rising" - читать интересную книгу автора (Day Alyssa)

Ackowledgments

Thanks, always, to Steve Axelrod, who makes me laugh, makes great deals for me, and says nice things when I make my once-a-book "aarghhh" phone call.

To my wonderful friends Christine, Cheryl, Kathy, and Val of the Starfish Club for encouragement, and to all my incredible friends who listen, are patient, and offer wonderful advice: Lani Diane Rich, Michelle Cunnah, Barbara Ferrer, Eileen Rendahl, Whitney Gaskell, Beth Kendrick, Cindy Holby, and Marianne Mancusi. To Megan Emish, for the Warriors of Poseidon symbol. To my terrific Web people, Deb and Tara at RomanceDesigns.com, who should have been thanked earlier.

To Suz Brockmann, Ed Gaffney, Eric Ruben, Virginia Kantra, and Cathy Mann, who are brilliant and generous, and to the folks at the Into the Storm weekend for sharing their enthusiasm with me and listening to the first-ever reading from this book.

Jenny Crusie and the Cherries, who are funny, cranky, and amazing in exactly the right proportions.

And always, of course, to my children, who ate a little too much pizza and watched a little too much TV during the last two weeks of this book, but never once complained. You're the best.

In this island, Atlantis, arose a great and marvelous might of kings… But in later time, after there had been exceeding great earthquakes and floods, there fell one day and night of destruction; and the warriors… were swallowed up by the earth, and in like manner did the island Atlantis sink beneath the sea and vanish away.

—Plato, Timaeus, dated at approximately 600 B.C.

One can hardly doubt that significant shifts of the earth's crust have taken place repeatedly…

—Albert Einstein, in correspondence to Charles Hapgood,

May 8,1953