As always, I am eternally grateful to the team at Viking for taking my words and turning them into a book. I would be adrift without the efforts of my copyeditors and proofreaders to wrangle my continuity errors and creative punctuation, so thank you to Abigail Powers, Sola Akinlana, Marinda Valenti, Alison Dotson, and Vivian Kirklin. I have been blessed with yet another fantastic cover, illustrated by Sara Kipin and designed by Maria Fazio and Kristin Boyle. Thank you also to Kate Renner for beautiful interior design. And to those who work to get the book into the hands of its readers, especially Kaitlin Kneafsey.

I am overwhelmed with gratitude to my family, who have always been my strongest supporters and biggest cheerleaders. Especially Mike: my spouse, my best friend, and my companion in all my travels. I couldn’t ask for a better partner.

Finally, the biggest thank-you goes to my readers. For those who have read along with Eleanor, Pip, and Otto from that first fateful Halloween, thank you so much—these books wouldn’t exist without you. Though our dear trio have earned their retirement, there are many more heroes to be found, more roads to follow, and more adventures to be had, and I hope that you will come along for the journey.

About the Author

Kate Alice Marshall started writing before she could hold a pen properly, and never stopped. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with a chaotic menagerie of pets and family members, and ventures out in the summer to kayak and camp along Puget Sound. She is the author of the YA novels I Am Still Alive, Rules for Vanishing, and Our Last Echoes. She is also the author of middle grade novels Thirteens and Brackenbeast.

Visit her online at katemarshallbooks.com and follow her on Twitter @kmarshallarts.

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