I would like to thank my Australian publisher, Bernadette Foley, my UK editor Jenni Hill, my editors in the US, Will Hinton and Tom Bouman, and in Australia, Kate Stevens and Abigail Nathan, plus all the other people at Orbit Books who have worked so hard and so long on this series. I would especially like to thank Tim Holman for advice, assistance and encouragement since I first became an Orbit author way back in 1999. To my agent, Selwa Anthony, thank you for your support over the past seventeen years and twenty-nine books.