Thanks to Allisha Ena Short, who let me steal the fine details of her life and give them to Meg. I am so grateful for my early readers, Dhonielle Clayton, Leah Henderson, Rebecca Barrow, Brianne Hoines, and Monica Bellous, without whom Kat and Meg would be stuck in just two dimensions, when they belong in at least seven.
Thank you to my fab swankies and electrics and sixteeners and Twitter peeps and every other beautiful soul I’ve met in this writerverse. Nothing can convince me that there are fewer of you than there are stars in the sky, because even when it’s dark, I feel surrounded by light.
To YouTubers VintageBeef, Guude, Aureylian, and the rest of the current and former Mindcrackers. Thank you for providing years of entertainment, suspense, personality, and laughs for my obsessive fangirl enjoyment.
And to my rock, Lorne. Thank you for sticking with me even when I’m a workaholic, exhausted, nervous wreck. More than that, thank you for supporting me and loving me and helping me know that everything will be okay. Oh, and thank you for the turtle. I love you.
Finally, thanks to God—for everything, forever and always.