Acknowledgments

As always, thanks to James for keeping me on course through all the raging storms and terrible calms of a writer’s life.

Thanks to Mike Jensen and Steve Jensen, constant readers.

Thanks to my parents, Art Jensen and Barbara Bader Jensen, for making sure I grew up in a house full of books.

Thanks to Christopher Cevasco, the first one to see something good in Hook.

Big thanks to Anna Torborg and Emma Barnes at Snowbooks, for falling in love with this book and midwifing it into print.

Major thanks to Pete Wolverton and Anne Brewer at Thomas Dunne Books, for being such a pleasure to work with.

Thanks to Lia Matera, head cheerleader, for tireless enthusiasm against all odds.

And special thanks to Broos, who kept telling me, “Hurry up and write the blamed thing so I can read it!”