But I will walk it with my kindred. With this boy I love. Together we will do something worthy and good. We will give our lives for others. Over and over again.
I don’t have answers to all the questions that lie before me. But Vincent and I have time to figure them out. All the time in the world.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ONCE AGAIN, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MY EDITOR extraordinaire Tara Weikum for her guidance with this book, as well as her unending patience as I struggled through it. Much gratitude to my fabulous team at HarperTeen: Chris Hernandez, Christina Colangelo, and Casey McIntyre. I was truly lucky to have them on board, supporting the final book in the series.
I am endlessly thankful for my UK Little, Brown/Atom team, who have done an amazing job with the promotion of my books in the UK. Thanks especially to Sam Smith, Rose Tremlett, Maddy Feeny, and Kate Agar for their enthusiastic support.
My super-agent Stacey Glick loved this project enough to find the perfect home for it and to cheer me along the whole way. And Laurent E. Abramo has done a bang-up job of finding homes for the Die for Me series in so many foreign countries and languages. Merci, Dystel & Goderich!
For the third time, Mark Ecob and Johanna Basford have worked their magic with the cover. I couldn’t have wished for a more beautifully packaged series, and my readers never tire of telling me how the gorgeous covers made them fall in love with the books before even reading a word.
As with the first two books, Claudia Depkin, friend and tireless beta reader, read every single word of If I Should Die. Several times. And gave me the support, encouragement, and feedback I needed to keep me centered and motivated. You were a huge part of this series, Claudia, and I’m so grateful.
Thanks and love to Kim Lennert for listening to me read the manuscript out loud as she drove me from New York to Lexington, Kentucky, to Birmingham, Alabama, to Nashville, Tennessee, on my Revenant Road Trip book tour. A girl could never wish for a truer friend.
I am much indebted to copyeditors Valerie Shea and Melinda Weigel. Without their continued corrections, If I Should Die would be embarrassingly jam-packed with mistakes. From fixing my scary punctuation to pointing out that people don’t wear heavy coats in July, they have made Die for Me a series I can be proud of. And thank you to all of my friends and readers for the enthusiasm, support . . . and forgiveness for leaving you hanging for an entire year after Until I Die’s monumental cliff-hanger ending. I told you everything would turn out in the end.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
AMY PLUM spent her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, her twenties in Chicago and Paris, and several more years in London, New York, and the Loire Valley. Now she lives in Paris and swears she’ll never move again. IF I SHOULD DIE is the final book in a trilogy about revenants that began with DIE FOR ME and UNTIL I DIE. You can visit Amy online at www.amyplumbooks.com.