Acknowledgments

Thank you, Leah Hultenschmidt, for your guidance and faith. You’re a North star. Derry Wilkens, what in the world did I ever do before you were in my life?! Thanks to Carrie, whom I met thanks to Sallie the Romance Puppy, and who introduced me to Bunny and Blueberry—who I think steal the show here. Thank you for rescuing those beautiful creatures, teaching me something about them, and allowing me to nose them into this book. Thank you, Stephen, for clever words. Thank you to Diane and Kristin for your brilliant eyes for detail on these books, and to Aubrey and Danielle for calling me names (you know what), doing your jobs really well, and making me laugh a lot along the way. Thank you to the whole Sourcebooks team, every last one of you, from the design to the sales departments. You are magical people who make things look magical and do magical things. Dominique, you visionary you, you are a dynamo of awesome and your support continues to mean the world to me. Thank you Sarah Maclean and Mari Mancusi for always being so helpful and gracious in addition to being rockstar authors. Thank you Saundra Mitchell for the mutual admiration society between our books. Thanks Mala Bhattacharjee for putting me in a magazine, and Morgan Doremus, for putting me on camera. Thank you Nicholas Roman Lewis for dealing with my Drama Queen moments like only you can. Thanks to Marcos, my beloved, for being my strong help in every way. You are my real-life hero, and you’ve taught Jonathon a thing or two. Thanks, Paul Peterson. That whole H. M. A. M. B. thing is now a real thing. Ha! Aren’t we clever?! Thanks Mom, Dad, and Kelissa for being my anchors and harbors. Thanks Aunt Sandy and Jeff for being so devoted, and to my whole extended family for reading and talking up my books. Thanks Marijo—I’ve really needed the brain-cell this year. And last but not least, thanks to the Strangely Beautiful fans who came over and supported Magic Most Foul. I hope you liked those two familiar faces waltzing through Bloomsbury as much as I liked seeing them there.