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  TO MY EDITOR, Arianne Lewin, thank you for believing in me . . . in Ash and Dane. You taught me a tremendous amount about writing, revising and the business of publishing. I’m forever grateful.

  Thanks to my copy editor, Anne Heausler, my cover designers, Theresa Evangelista and Jessica Jenkins, and everyone at Putnam for getting this book to the shelves.

  To my godsend of an agent, Jaida Temperly, thank you for everything you do. Every single day. And to everyone at New Leaf, I’m incredibly lucky to have you in my corner.

  Special thanks to Josh Adams for making all this possible.

  I cherish the time I spent at the Coronado Quivira Museum in Lyons, Kansas, and Castell d’Emporda in Spain—thanks for letting me have run of the place.

  To my friends Alexis Bass, Rebecca Behrens, Virginia Boecker, Libba Bray, Gina Carey, Sona Charaiporta, Dhonielle Clayton, Bess Cozby, Melissa Gray, Maggie Hall, Lee Kelly, Jodi Kendall, Erin Morgenstern, Danielle Paige, Veronica Rossi, Kate Scelsa, Adam Scott, Eric Smith, Courtney Stevens, Nova Ren Suma, Kara Thomas, Jen Marie Thorne, April Tucholke, Jasmine Warga—for the record, I would help every single one of you bury a body. Call me.

  And to my family, Maddie, Rahm, John, Joyce, Cristie, and last but not least, Honeypie.

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