Real love is not just the willingness to make it happen, but the absolute certainty that it can.

So please don’t rush into love or put your life on hold waiting for it. Enjoy being blissfully single. Use this precious time to really get to know yourself. To discover who you are, what you really want—and the future you so fucking deserve.

While you’re on this gorgeous inward adventure, go explore the wonderful world outside your bedroom window. Run away with the circus and never look back. Leave behind all the dumb expectations society expects of you, the bullshit others put on you, and create your own destiny.

Just be you.

In your amazing, dazzling, beautifully crazy—Cult of One.

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Do you believe it’s possible to find true love?

Yes—because I found you.

Thank You

Well, you finally made it to the end.

Hopefully you enjoyed our little roller-coaster ride together.

When you read the words again, and dive beneath the surface of the dark lake, you may find you’re actually reading a very different book. I did try to warn you the pages are bewitched.

And if you’re feeling particularly mischievous, go tell your friends about Cult of Two.

I also hope you get to read my other books, Dirty Pretty Things, Bitter Sweet Love, Smoke & Mirrors, and Winter of Summers, if you haven’t already done so.

Please stay in touch on my official Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages. I always love to know which poems, pieces of prose, or short stories you liked the most.

Until we meet again, in another time, another place, may kindness be your guide.

Thank you so much for your wonderful support.

Best wishes always,

—Michael xo

Acknowledgments

A warm thank you to my agent, Al Zuckerman. It was such a pleasure to catch up with you and Claire in New York. I certainly look forward to seeing you again soon for another wonderful evening of potent cocktails, stimulating conversation, gorgeous food, and exceptional wine.

Samantha Wekstein, thank you for all your help and support. I truly appreciate it. And thanks to the rest of the team at Writers House, New York.

A big thank you to Kirsty Melville, Patty Rice, and Kathy Hilliard for bringing my fifth book with Andrews McMeel into the world. I can’t wait to buy you all a well-deserved martini!

Tinca Veerman, I simply can’t thank you enough. I’m just so happy to have another one of your amazing artworks on the cover of Cult of Two.

To my son, Oliver, I love you more than all the mathematical equations and scientific formulae, whirling around inside your clever head. If only I was half as smart as you.