Thank you to my wonderful editor, Brit Hvide, for helping me finish out this series with a bang. Thanks to my fantastic agent, Caitlin Blasdell, and all her colleagues at Liza Dawson Associates, without whom the Powder Mage universe wouldn’t be what it is today. Also thank you to the awesome staff at Orbit who work hard to make sure that my books are edited, marketed, printed, given cover art, and so much more.
Thanks to my wife, Michele, for all the work she’s spent editing this and all the previous books—for giving me great ideas and pointing out where I go wrong and cheering me on when I get it right.
And of course, thanks to my beta readers, Mark Lindberg and Peter Keep, for taking a look at an early manuscript and giving me valuable feedback. Their help has saved me countless headaches.
Finally, thanks again to my old editor Devi Pillai. Her job change may have prevented her from finishing out the series, but she’s the one who gave me my first big break and bought both the Powder Mage Trilogy and Gods of Blood and Powder. Without her support I probably wouldn’t have gotten this far.