Emerald Blaze

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank our wonderful editor, Erika Tsang, for making a mess into a book and “having faith” in us. We also would like to thank all the people we tortured at Avon: Nicole Fischer, Christine Langone, Brittani DiMare, and Pamela Jaffee. You thought you would escape unharmed, Pam. Ha-ha.

We are incredibly grateful to Nancy Yost, our agent, and the amazing and long-suffering crew at Nancy Yost Literary Agency: Sarah Younger, Natanya Wheeler, and Cheryl Pientka. Yay, we finished another book, somehow, against all odds.

A special thank you to Stephanie Mowery, who helped us to make our copyedits even more thorough, and Jessie Mihalik, Jill Smith, and RJ Blain for their advice and friendship. Huge thank you to poor Jeaniene Frost, who put aside her own novel to critique chunks of unfinished manuscript and endured our endless whining about it.

We also would like to thank all the people who kindly lent us their expertise. All mistakes in the manuscript are ours alone. Thank you to Chiara Prato, Harriet Chow, Jing Ting, Sherene Neo, and Nina Z. Javan, Esq.

Last but not least, we would love to thank all of our beta readers, who have read the working version of the manuscript and somehow survived: Hasna Saadani, Kate Small, Jeanine Rachau, Julie Heckert, Scott Drummond, Tori Benson, Robyn Huffman, Kristi DeCourcy, and Debra J. Murray. If we forgot someone, we are so sorry.