IT WAS SO much fun to complete the second book in this series, and I couldn’t have done it without the help of Josh Bank, Sara Shandler, Annie Stone, and Lanie Davis at Alloy and Julie Rosenberg, Kieran Viola, and Emily Meehan at Freeform. Also huge thanks to the Freeform team for all their support for all things Amateurs—Mary Ann Zissimos, Andrew Sansone, Holly Nagel, Elke Villa, and Seale Ballenger, that means you! Supercool Pop Sockets, spot-on swag, loving support. Thanks also to Crystal Patriarche and Kelly Bowen at SparkPoint Studio for their creative thinking and never-ending enthusiasm. And to all the authors I newly met or reconnected with in my months of touring—Sarah Mlynowski, Margaret Stohl, Katie McGee, Danielle Paige, Soman Chainani, Leigh Bardugo, Kami Garcia, Nicola Yoon, Kim McCreight (I loved our Padma sighting in Miami!), Caleb Roehrig, and so many more—you are all so lovely, and I’m so glad not to be doing this alone. Oh, and also, Caroline Kepnes, you are an absolute gem, and I probably wouldn’t have stayed sane without you.

Also love and kisses to my family—Michael, who leaves golf tees in pants pockets and breaks our appliances; Henry, whose love of our cat has made our cat semidomesticated, and Kristian, the only kid I know who enjoys singing the My Little Pony theme song as well as “Bad to the Bone.” You guys are the best of the best.