Thanks to everyone at Bookouture for sheer brilliance: the authors, for advice, for the jokes and the gossip, and for reminders that I’m not the only one who finds lows as well as highs when constructing stories; Kim Nash and Noelle Holton, the gurus and now authors themselves, for helping to get this story out of my head and into others’; and Celine Kelly for word surgery. A special shout, though, to Christina Demosthenous, in part for all those things mentioned above, as well as patience. Lots of patience. Cheers.