everafter…

FOLLOWING TRIXIE’S PASSING, I asked Linda Valliant if CCI would consider doing Gerda and me a great favor. I hoped they might add Trixie’s name to the monument sign at the entrance to the Southwest Chapter’s Oceanside campus. This dog, after all, inspired in Gerda and me greater giving than we had done before, and Trixie’s writing career pays catastrophic medical bills for the dogs of people with disabilities. The sign now includes her name, and each time I see it, I see the proof that her little life, like every life, changed the lives of others, and I take heart that I will meet her again in a place of wonder, at the center of the mystery around which our existence eternally revolves.

Dean Koontz

Acknowledged as "America's most popular suspense novelist"(Rolling Stone) and as one of today's most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means to be human.

Dean Koontz lives with his wife, Gerda, and their dog, Trixie, in southern California.