Author's Notes:

My thanks to my editors for this universe, for slogging through all this with me, and helping me make sense of how this universe is meant to unfold.

• Jedi1ant
• Juliastoz

Thank you to all of you readers who have had the patience to bear with me this far.

The background image for this universe is a repurposed Powerpoint template from Microsoft Office 2003, the base of the U.S. map I borrowed from here, both used without permission. Trixie, Jim, and co. belong to Random House.