I must give supreme thanks to the magnificent, incomparable, otherworldly Sharon Pelletier, and equal gratitude to David Pomerico, Mireya Chiriboga, Camille Collins, Angela Craft, Paula Szafranski, Owen Corrigan, and everyone else possessed of the talent and grace necessary to work at Harper Voyager.
Closer to home, I owe an overwhelming debt to my wife, Yvonne, who spent huge chunks of her maternity leave watching both kids so that I could hammer out this book’s first draft. Thanks as well to my parents; my brother, Caldwell; and my children, Dash and August, since if they weren’t good sleepers I would never get anything done at all.