The Rising

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FIRST, A HUGE THANK-YOU to my agent, Sarah Heller, for taking my dream of writing YA and making it a reality. And an equally huge thanks to the editors who took a chance on this new direction of mine—Rosemary Brosnan at HarperCollins US, Antonia Hodgson of Atom UK, and Anne Collins and Kristin Cochrane at Doubleday Canada.

A special thanks goes out to my beta readers for this series. Stephanie Drum, Terri Giesbrecht, Matt Sievers, Nicole Tom, and Sharon Young all read early copies of most of the books and helped keep me from making some humiliating mistakes. Thanks, guys!