Thanks to my wife, Kerri, for helping me with the original proposal for the You Choose series, as well as for reading and commenting on drafts of this book.
Thanks also to my other Beta readers, Nykita and Ozge (who saved me great embarrassment by pointing out that I had misspelt my own name).
Thanks to Chris, Laura, Terry, Andreas and Peter, for suggesting some awesome piratical shop names.
Finally, a HUGE thank you to everyone at Random House Australia, for being such a wonderful team to work with.