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Chapters (57)
  1. Cover
  2. PRAISE FOR
  3. Dedication
  4. Before
  5. CHAPTER ONE
  6. CHAPTER TWO
  7. CHAPTER THREE
  8. CHAPTER FOUR
  9. CHAPTER FIVE
  10. CHAPTER SIX
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT
  13. CHAPTER NINE
  14. CHAPTER TEN
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  23. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  44. CHAPTER FORTY
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  54. EPILOGUE
  55. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  56. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  57. What’s next onyour reading list?

At the beginning of this trilogy, I was writing a vicious and joyful response to Mad Max: Fury Road. That movie was an answer to a question I’d been nurturing for a very long time. As a young reader, I adored fantastical stories with epic quests and the highest of stakes, but I struggled to feel like I had a place in those stories. Mad Max: Fury Road changed that. It was an invitation not only to join the adventure, but to demand a role in it. While this story may have started as a love letter to that movie, it became one to the reader I was as a young adult, and I am grateful to all the people who helped me write it.

My wife, Tessa Gratton, deserves first and last thanks for always asking the one question that unlocks crucial pieces of the story. Even if I don’t like the question at the time.

Throughout this entire trilogy, my father has answered every nautical question I threw at him, frequently with so much more detail than I could possibly include here. I’m still sorry I couldn’t work in that detail about the captain’s chair being ziplined from one ship to another!

To Lydia Ash, Dot Hutchison, Adib Khorram, Amanda Sellet, and La Prima Tazza, I am thankful for weekly meetups and lunches. (Fingers crossed we get to do that ever again.) And I will never have enough thanks for the friends who listened to me attempt to excavate parts of this story with semi-wild ravings: Becca Coffindaffer, Zoraida Córdova, Julie Murphy, and Sierra Simone.

My editor, Chris Hernandez, who helped raise the stakes and close this trilogy in the best way possible. To all the unsung heroes at Razorbill and PYR who work behind the scenes to design, copyedit, proof, produce, and sell my work, thank you.

This trilogy wouldn’t exist at all without team Alloy. Lanie Davis, who has helped me identify who I am as an author, and Josh Bank, who is a lot nicer than he wants you to think, I couldn’t do this without you both.

My agent, Lara Perkins, for being a mentor, friend, and steady hand in rough seas.

To all of the booksellers, librarians, and teachers who have championed this series, especially the team at the Raven Book Store.

And to my readers, for sailing with Caledonia and her crew from the very beginning. Thank you.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR