Magnus & Sabrina, for their invaluable help in making this story better. Rita, for her most hilarious AAAAAAHHHHs and NOOOOOOOOOs and the DON’T YOU DARE KILL MY MAN (I can’t give you a reply to this last one yet, though). Don Sander, for pointing out typos and logical nits; and Michael Bunker and Matthew H., for providing home-brewed profanity.
And, finally, Janis McDermott and Thomas Welch, for proof reading.
If there’s anything wrong with this book — it’s all my fault. I might have been drunk writing and editing it. Except the profanity, that’s all Michael’s and Matthew’s fault.