So while I keep pinching myself, I want to express my deepest thanks to my stellar literary agent, Samantha Fabien, who loved Jamie and Bea from page one, whose heart for inclusivity in romance stole my heart, and who has made me feel beyond supported, heard, and advocated for. Thank you to Kristine Swartz, editor extraordinaire, for your enthusiasm for Two Wrongs, for believing in Jamie and Bea’s story, for supporting my voice and my vision for romance that champions everyone’s worthiness of love, for your wisdom and guidance that’s shaped this story into its best self. Thank you also to everyone at Berkley who has worked on and supported this book, through design, editing, publicity, marketing, and beyond.

Thank you to my dear friends who I’ve found through my love of romance reading and writing. Helen Hoang, there aren’t adequate words to express how much your books, friendship, guidance, and support mean to me—you’re a gem, and I treasure you. Mazey Eddings and Megan Stillwell, my neurodivine queens, thank you for coming alongside me on this journey with lots of laughs, coordinated comfy clothes, Airbnb adventures, and so much love. Elizabeth Everett, Rachel Lynn Solomon, Sarah Hogle, Sarah Grunder Ruiz, and Sarah Adams: each in your own way, you’ve cheered me on and offered wisdom as I dipped my toes into the world of traditional publishing, then took the plunge, and I’m so thankful for your friendship. So many more wonderful author and reader friends, I hope you know how much you mean to me: your kindness and support are gifts that I’ll never take for granted.

Thank you to my family and friends in the everyday, not-so-bookish part of my life. You love me for who I am—someone who nearly always has one foot in a story she’s writing or reading, the other in the world we share. You humor me when I ramble about tropes and first kisses and all those ideas for my next novel. You mourn my disappointments and celebrate my victories, and I’m so grateful to have you in my life.

To my two firecracker kids, you are the best things I will ever give this world. Thank you for stretching my heart and curiosity and putting a fire under my derrière to make the world a kinder place. I hope if you ever read my books (If you do, let’s make that wayyy down the road, yeah?) that you will be proud of me, that you will recognize in my writing what I hope and dream for you: lives built on healthy self-understanding and self-love, on the love of friends, family, found family—and yes, one day, a romantic partner, if your heart so desires—who adore you for all of who you are, who want to learn you and wrap their arms around you and with whom you are safe and fully known.