Acknowledgments

As always, the most tremendous thank you to Douglas Holgate for bringing my vague notes and imprecise ideas to beautiful, stunning, monstrous life. Leila Sales, my steadfast editor—I can’t thank you enough. Jim Hoover, for designing, designing, re-designing, then designing some more. You are so appreciated. Bridget Hartzler, my kick-butt publicist who kicks butt at kicking-butt—you rock. To Abigail Powers, Krista Ahlberg, and Marinda Valenti—thanks for keeping the series typo-free.

Erin Berger, Emily Romero, Carmela Iaria, Christina Colangelo, Felicity Vallence, Kim Ryan and everyone else in Viking’s marketing and publicity department—thank you for your belief in this series and for taking it to the next level, again and again. And it goes without saying: Ken Wright, for every last thing. Robin Hoffman and all the folks at Scholastic, for your endless support. Dan Lazar, at Writers House, for oh so many things—too many to mention. Cecilia de la Campa and James Munro, for helping Jack, June, Quint, and Dirk travel the world. Torie Doherty-Munro, for always being patient and answering my annoying calls! And Addison Duffy and Kassie Evashevski, for helping take this beyond. Matt Berkowitz—thank you for your endlessly helpful notes, thoughts, and for reading and reading when you already have so much other, better reading to do.

And my wonderful family: Alyse and Lila. You make it all worthwhile.