Acknowledgments

Thanks to my editor, Carl Engle-Laird, and my agent, DongWon Song, for their faith in me and for making this novella duology work. To Irene Gallo, Christine Foltzer, and Yuko Shimizu, for the amazing cover, and for perfectly capturing Akeha’s permanent level of grump. And to the crew sailing under the banner of Alyx, Kelly, Kelly, Jay, and Merc: you kept me afloat through the long nights of word processing. Thank you.