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Sarah Cantin understood this book from the first pitch, and then pushed it to be so much better and more ambitious than I’d ever hoped for. This might be the most complicated novel I’ve ever written, and were it not for Sarah’s editorial genius, I think it—and I—would have fallen to pieces many times over. Thank you so much, Sarah, for all your work and for never stopping me from using roughly 354 nautical puns whenever I emailed you about the manuscript.

Thank you also to Sallie Lotz, whose notes are always so smart and whose eye is so sharp.

The entire team at St. Martin’s Press is a dream to work with, and I am beyond fortunate to have them at the helm. My books and my career are in such good hands with all of you.

Thank you, as always, to my friends, especially, in this case, Ash Parsons, Kerri Mu?oz, and Vicky Alvear Schecter, all of whom heard about this book in its earliest stages and cheered me on. Hopefully by the time this one is out, we’re all back at the convent again, walking mazes and scandalizing nuns.

And of course, for my family. I love y’all.