To the interactive editors who first published my work, I thank you for giving me the space to develop my own unique style of Interactive Fiction (sometimes veering outside house rules). I’d like to thank everyone at Choice of Games, especially Jason Stevan Hill, along with everyone at Tales Fiction and Jessica Delfanti.

To Ned Rust and the James Patterson Team, I thank you for giving me my first internship at Hachette as a college freshman, where I learned so much about the industry and dreamed of someday having my own book to hold. To now be published by Hachette fifteen years later is truly a dream come true.

To my Penn writing family, I thank you for the endless support. Jessica Goodman, host of many lunches to compare publishing notes, from agentless manuscripts to potential TV deals and everything in-between. Grant Ginder, who introduced me to my agent Lucy after a boozy NYC lunch. Kate Myers, my friend-therapist and fellow writing warrior. Mingo Reynolds and RJ Bernocco, ultimate shepherds to all Penn writers, who gave me my career start in LA and who keep me in touch with the next generation of writers.

To all of the mentors and supporters, I thank you for telling me I could do this and shaping me as a writer: John Tricamo, Adrienne Rosado, Max Apple, Valerie Ross, Margo Todd, Paul Hendrickson, Mark Rizzo, Tim McNeal, John Strauss, Jane Ezersky, Lindsay Tolbert, Carmine Gibaldi, and Mary Rita Wallace. I’d like to especially thank dear family friend David Kastan, the very first person to tell me, at age sixteen, that if I worked at it hard enough to develop it, I had the talent to be a writer.

To the generations of tarot wisdom that seeped into this novel, there’s an endless foundation of artists and thinkers to thank. I used many decks and guidebooks for inspiration and reference, but a few works remained central to my own understanding of the tarot: David Fontana’s The Essential Guide to The Tarot; Vanessa Decort’s Sun and Moon Tarot; and Jason Gruhl, Jonathan Saiz, and Andi Todaro’s The Fountain Tarot. I also owe an endless debt of gratitude to Oprah and her SuperSoul conversations for so much accumulated wisdom.

To the ladies of High Rise, I thank you for providing the adventures that filled the journals I referenced when bringing these characters to life. You forever have my high school heart.