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Acknowledgments


As always, a ferocious thank-you to everyone at Wednesday—four books in and I’m still pinching myself every day that I get to work with such wonderful humans. To Alex, for your endlessly brilliant edits and ideas, and for understanding on a soul-deep level my need to hinge every plot on dessert. To Meghan, Alexis, and Cassidy, for helping bring this book into the world and for the wild amount of work and organizing that goes on to make it happen. To Kerri and Vi-An for this cover I am so in love with (and for rolling with my incredibly dweeby punches at the suggestion for the inspiration behind Milo; I won’t say who it was here in case anyone reading this wants to take a guess!!).

Thank you infinitely to Janna, who has seen every corner of my chaotic glitter dessert brain by now and continues to support its wild agendas every step of the way.

Thank you to my friends both in and out of Writer Land—WOW, am I glad we all have each other. To Gaby and Erin and Kadeen and Suzie and Cristina for everything and forever (holy guacamole, look at us all now!!). To JQ and David and—you know what? I’m not thanking Harry Styles this time, he’s been inactive in the group chat for too long and it feels rude. To Jackie and Ashley and Heather and Noah, the newest member of the squad, who grew into being at the same time as this book, which I think legally makes him this book’s cousin.

Thank you to Evan, Maddie, and Lily, who are not only superb siblings, but I’m hoping have forgiven me for years of kicking them off the family desktop to write fanfiction despite our collective Neopets agendas. And the biggest thank-you of all to our parents, who have always believed in and supported us so thoroughly that it was never hard to pick ourselves up from a challenge and—please forgive me as I whip out the title of this book for dramatic effect—begin again.