So much love and thanks to my phenomenal family, to my sister, my brother, my brother-in-law, and to my incredible parents. Mom and Dad, I love you both so very much, and without the two of you, I wouldn’t be doing this at all.
Huge thanks to everyone at Flatiron Books! I could not ask for a better publisher or a more outstanding group of people to work with. Thank you so much, Bob Miller, Megan Lynch, Malati Chavali, Nancy Trypuc, Jordan Forney, Cat Kenney, Marlena Bittner, and Donna Noetzel.
Thank you so much to all the wonderful people at Macmillan Academic, Macmillan Library, Macmillan Sales, and Macmillan Audio. I also want to give a huge thanks to my fantastic audiobook narrator, Rebecca Solar, for always doing an incredible job of bringing my stories to life.
Thank you so much to everyone at my brilliant UK publisher, Hodder and Stoughton, with a special thanks to Kimberley Atkins—it has been such a joy to have you as an editor, and I am so grateful you wanted to work with me and my books. Lydia Blagden, I am continually thankful for your artistic brilliance! Callie Robertson, thank you for all your terrific marketing.
Thank you, Erin Fitzsimmons and Keith Hayes, for yet an other fantastic cover! And thank you so much, Virginia Allyn, for pouring so much love into another fantastical map of the Magnificent North.
To my fabulous, wonderful, incredible friends! Stacey Lee, thank you for being there for me through everything—this last year felt especially tumultuous, and I am so grateful for you and your enduring friendship. Thank you, Kristin Dwyer, for listening to me talk about this book over and over. I am so grateful for your friendship and your questions and your endless belief in my stories! Thank you, Kerri Maniscalco, for reading some of my messy first drafts and for all your brilliant feedback. Thank you, Isabel Iba?ez, for your incredible friendship and for being there for pretty much everything! Thank you, Anissa de Gomery, for loving Jacks so much. Jordan Gray, thank you for falling in love with this story and for helping me make the romance even stronger! Kristen Williams, thank you for being such a good friend and such a ray of joy in this community. Thank you, Adrienne Young, for your fierce and wonderful friendship. Thank you, Jenny Lundquist and Shannon Dittemore, for all the amazing walks and talks. And thank you, Jodi Picoult, for being the first to read the finished book and for your magical quote!
And finally, I want to thank my readers! I am so glad that I love writing YA fantasy, because I think YA fantasy readers are some of the most incredible readers out there. Thank you all for reading these books, for sharing about these books, and for loving these books.