Thanks go to the following people. To Sarah Molloy and all at AM Heath. To Stella Paskins and Elizabeth Law, and all at Egmont in the UK and US respectively. To Jane Tait for her expert attention to detail. To Sharon Chai for her vision. To Una, as before. And finally, thanks to the many people who’ve contacted me in the last year to tell my how much they enjoyed Blood, both new readers and old friends, with a special mention to Helen P, who perhaps knew before anyone that I would write these books …
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!”