A big, BIG thank you to my friends and family for your support during the writing process and always for continually serving as personal cheerleaders along the way. Thanks for laughing with me—or maybe it was at me—either way. Nonetheless, I appreciate you being there. or maybe it was at mA special thank you to Sebastian Kullas for so generously providing the cover art. With extreme gratitude, I would like to acknowledge my beta readers. Thank you for your input each step of the way, for making this book what it is, and especially for incessantly bugging and motivating me to send you more. Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank the readers for every sweet note, for every review, for simply reading. You guys are everything. Thank you.

