As ever, a huge, heartfelt, sliding-in-right-before-the-deadline thank you of gratitude and relief to my main peeps who help make these books happen: my editors Julie Rosenberg and Emily Meehan, my publicist Seale Ballenger, and our faithful compatriots at Disney Channel: Naketha Mattocks and Carin Davis. Thanks for believing!

Thank you to everyone at Disney Publishing and Disney Channel including Andrew Sugerman, Raj Murari, Mary Ann Naples, Gary Marsh, Jennifer Rogers-Doyle, Adam Bonnett, Laura Burns, Kate Reagan, Hannah Allaman, Mary Ann “MAZ!” Zissimos, Elena Blanco, Kim Knueppel, Sarah Sullivan, Jackie De Leo, Frank (Frankie BOOM!) Bumbalo, Dina Sherman, Elke Villa, Andrew Sansone, Holly Nagel, Alex Eiserloh, Maggie Penn, Sadie Hillier, Marybeth Tregarthen, Sara Liebling, Guy Cunningham, Dan Kaufman, David Jaffe, Meredith Jones, Marci Senders, James Madsen, and Russ Gray.

Thank you to the talented stars of Descendants 2 who are so inspiring and always fun to watch—Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Cameron Boyce, Booboo Stewart, Mitchell Hope, Brenna D’Amico, Dianne Doan, Jedidiah Goodacre, Zachary Gibson, and the awesome new pirates China McClain, Thomas Doherty, and Dylan Playfair.

Thank you, Kenny Ortega, for making another fun movie!

Thank you to Richard Abate, Rachel Kim, and everyone at 3Arts. Thank you, Talia Hurst and Candy Ford for everything you do at home to keep it running.

Thank you to my family—Mom, Steve, Aina, Nicholas, and Joseph Green; Chito, Christina, Sebastian, and Marie de la Cruz, Terence, Trina, and Olivia Lim; Odette and Christina Gaisano; Clarke, Isabel and, Cailyn Ng; Sony and Badong Torre; Melanie, Maj, and Mica Ong/Calangi, and everyone in the extended DLC-Ong clan!

Thanks to Marg and Raf always.

Big love and thanks to the YallCrew: Shane Pangburn, Tori Hill, Spencer Richardson, Jonathan Sanchez, Tahereh Mafi, Ransom Riggs, Marie Lu, Kami Garcia, Brendan Reichs, Sandy London, Veronica Roth, Holly Goldberg Sloan, Patrick Dolan, and Emily Williams.

Thank you my CH crew: Heidi and Andy McKenna, Jill Lorie and Steve Stewart, Cole Hartman, Tiffany Moon, Dan and Dawn Limerick, Carol Koh and Tony Evans, Sean Curley and Bronwyn Savasta, Gloria Jolley and Scott Johnson, Fatima Goncalves and Auggie Ruiz, Mike and Betty Balian, Saher and Bassil Hamideh, Ava and Ron McKay, Nicole and Chris Jones, Bob and Carolyn Holmes, Celeste and Patrick Vos, Jenni and Adam Gerber, and Molly and Chad Ludwig.

Huge thanks to all the rotten little Descenders!

Thanks most to everyone on our Netflix account: especially Mike, who stopped working on his book to help with mine, Mattie, the light of our lives, Mimi, loyal hound, and Summer, who’s still alive (she’s a beta). Mama can hang out again.