Acknowledgments

It’s been an amazing ride with the Chicago Falcons, and we’re so grateful we got to explore the adventures of Alice, Hayden, Madison, Daniel, and now Tyler and Evangeline. These characters have made us laugh with their antics, which so naturally flowed onto the page. Getting to share these three stories with our readers is the greatest gift, and we will miss the Chicago Falcons very much.

As always, our first thank you has to go to our lovely editor, Brenda Chin. It has been such a pleasure working with you over the last year, and such an immense learning experience. We want to thank you for your insight, your mentorship, and of course, your honesty!

We love, love, love our Entangled Publishing team! Big thank yous to Riki, Holly, Curtis, Melanie, Stacy, Liz, the Crush family, and everyone else! WE LOVE YOU!

To our much-loved friends who have rallied behind us with the strength and enthusiasm of an entire hockey team, thank you. Every supportive message is treasured more than you will ever know.

A huge thank you to our beloved family for their constant support and love. Auntie Jo, we wrote this book fueled by your red pepper jelly. Gaga and Grumps, we love you both so much! Although we live far away, we feel your love all the way from Mexico.

Leah: Having dyslexia myself, I found writing Tyler’s struggle was incredibly personal. I want to thank my teachers and family for constantly supporting me, especially Kate who still corrects all my spelling to this day…including correcting every mention of “Couch Zabinski”. I also want to thank the little girl who never gave up, who wrote pages and pages of stories, even when the words and letters jumbled together. I’m glad I kept writing.

Kate: To Graeme who loves me even when I ignore him for an entire month straight to write about Daniel’s crazy spaghetti antics and Tyler’s dramatic outbursts. Thank you for always fixing my fences (metaphorically and not). I could fill a book with my love for you, but then you’d have to read it when you could be relaxing at the lake, so I’ll just say this: you are my light and my lightning and I love you so much.

And of course, to Mom and Dad, who have enthusiastically read everything we’ve ever written, no matter if it’s dinosaurs or Daniel Sacachelli. Thank you for believing in us, even after such masterpieces such as “Danny Dinner”. We’ll keep writing as long as you keep reading.

Finally, we would like to thank our readers. This is the third and final book in the Chicago Falcons series, and we’re so proud we got to share all three stories with you. If you started with us at Alice’s story, thank you so much for coming on this wild royal ride! If you joined us here, thank you for picking up a story about a hockey playing pretend-prince. What a wild season this has been, and we’re so grateful you’ve been a part of the Falcons’ journey. So for now, that’s the end of third period, but we’ll see you in the next one.

Because we’ll always be Falcons.