I'm so grateful to Cindy Hwang and Leslie Gelbman for their sup- port and encouragement, and most important, their love for Gideon and Eva's story. It takes passion to write a book and passion to sell it. I'm very thankful they have it.
I could write an entire book about everything I need to thank my agent Kimberly Whalen for. The Crossfire series is a massive multi- national, multiformat endeavor, and she never misses a trick. Be- cause she's always on the ball, I'm freed to focus on my part of our collaboration-the writing!—and I love her for it.
Behind Cindy, Leslie, Kim, Claire Pelly, and Tom Weldon are dynamic teams at Penguin and Trident Media Group. I wish I could tivat Go to Set mention everyone by name, but really, it takes a village.