Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank Anne Scott, my editor, for helping my books live up to their potential, and everyone at Samhain for making them shine. Thank you to Kim Killion for another stunning, emotional cover. Thank you to my agent Kevan Lyon for being a rock, as always.

Thank you once again to the world’s greatest critique partners, the Demimondaines: Alyssa Everett, Charlotte Russell, Vonnie Hughes and especially Susanna Fraser. Your support and insight make all the difference.

Thank you to my beloved and brilliant friends and first readers: Kate Addison, Tiffany Ruzicki, Greg Holt, Kim Runciman and Olivia Waite. (A bunch of you even read the first act twice, because you are angels!) Kim, you were the first person to want a Toogood book, back when you first read Sweet Disorder. Thank you. (I believe our initial concept was 007!Toogood but some ideas are too good for this world.)

And thank you to Marisha Banerji and Rukmini Pande for taking a look at Mrs. Khaleel’s scenes. She’s my first major Indian character and I appreciate you helping me do right by her! Any remaining errors of fact or judgment are of course all my own.

I want to thank my family, for always being excited about my work.

And finally and forever, thank you to Sonia for being willing to talk about this book more than any book should ever be talked about. <3