I have so many people to thank for helping me with this book and starting this series. Apologies in advance if my tired, deadline brain forgets anyone. It is definitely not intentional.

As always, thank you to my loving husband and children who show great understanding and patience when I lock myself away for days and weeks at a time to finish a book, which interrupts our normal life more than I’d like.

Thank you to my work wifeys and soul sisters, Cindi Madsen and Rebecca Yarros, for everything and anything: plotting, reading, sprinting, blurb-shaping, whip-cracking, encouraging, supporting, laughing, and a thousand other things I could never list even if I tried. My life is immeasurably better with them in it, and I seriously don’t know what I’d do without our daily conversations and weekly video chats. As a tearful Jerry Maguire once said, they complete me. #UnholyTrinity

To Erin McRae who dropped everything to read every single chapter as soon as I hit send, even at 3am when I was expecting her to be asleep, but she never was, and for helping my brain to plot future books over text conversations. I look forward to future text sessions, especially once she finally gets an iPhone again, because let’s be honest green text bubbles suck ass. ;)

To Danielle Rairigh () and Rebecca Barney (), two amazing ladies and bloggers in the romance community who, little by little, have restored my faith in the goodness of humanity by going above and beyond to beta read, offer feedback/proofing skills/advice, and repeatedly lifting me up during a time I thought I couldn’t trust anyone. This book was largely finished because of their generosity, and I’m so grateful to both of them.

To Jaycee DeLorenzo of who created the beautiful covers for Pan, Hook, and Tink, and is literally the easiest, most pleasant, drama-free designer I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. If you need design work done, she’s the woman to see.

To Brenda Ambrosius, the most kickass attorney I could’ve ever asked for. She truly has a gift for crafting legal letters with all the professionalism they require plus a healthy dose of ghetto subtext. Without everything she’s done for me over the past six weeks, this book wouldn’t have gotten out when it did, and my sanity would no longer be intact. Because of everything she’s done for me, I’m naming a heroine after her (with a slight variation) in this series. Look for her to be introduced in Tink’s book this summer!

To Aimee Pachorek, Amy Ball, Michelle Macrander, and Shelby Burk for reading early versions of these chapters and getting excited about these characters and the world I built for them. Your enthusiasm and encouragement were bright spots in my days, and I appreciate the time you took out of your busy schedules to read when you could.

To my incredible agent, Nicole Resciniti of the Seymour Agency, for her never-ending advice and support, talking me down from proverbial ledges, and working hard to get me awesome opportunities that allow me to share my stories with wider audiences. She’s truly the backbone of my career, and without her, I would be lost. I’m incredibly grateful to have her in my life, and someday I hope to return all the good she’s done for me, ten-fold.

To everyone in the Maxwell Mob: thank you for sticking with me all these years and getting excited about my new projects in my ever-shifting publishing schedule. Your constant support, enthusiasm, and posts about Jason Momoa are what keep me going. Every. Single. Day.

A very special thank you to all the bloggers who work tirelessly and for free to shout out about my books, make graphics, invite me for takeovers, offer advice, take time to read and review my ARCs, and are just in general super amazing women whose passion is to lift up other women. You are the foundation of this book community we all live in, and we couldn’t reach nearly as many readers as we do without you. I’m forever grateful for your help and humbled by your generous spirits.

And finally, thank you to everyone who’s read this book. I hope you enjoyed my contemporary retelling of Peter Pan, and I especially hope you’ll stick around for the remaining eight books I have planned in the Neverland Novels. This series is a passion project for me, one I’m incredibly proud of, and I promise to work hard to make it the best I can for you. If you enjoyed it—or even if you didn’t—I would super-duper appreciate your honest review on , , or . Sharing is caring, and reviews are what makes an author’s world go round. :)

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