Even before we began writing, we knew how this trilogy would begin and how it would end, but we’d never have made it from there to here without help. To our extraordinary editor, Lucy Courtenay, who knows Matt and Em and the others as well as we do, the biggest thank you… imaginable. Thank you to Buster Books for kicking off the series, and three cheers to Laura Palmer and the folks at Head of Zeus who will travel to the future with us. And, as always, thank you to our agents, Georgina Capel of Capel and Land Ltd, and Gavin Barker of Gavin Barker and Associates Ltd.
Finally, to our spouses, Kevin Casey and Scott Gill, our parents Marion and John Barrowman, and the rest of our family (especially Turner, Clare and Casey) without whom we’d be truly lost, thank you for making this literary journey much less bumpy and for being the rest-stops whenever we needed one –
CB: Which was a lot.
JB: You can’t have the last words.
CB: Yes, I can.
JB: No, you can’t
Carole and John
2014