Acknowledgements
First and foremost a big thank you to Jo Fletcher, JFB and Quercus for believing in this series, and their expertise and eye for detail in making it the best it can be.
Also my immense gratitude to my agent Heather Adams for opening the doors for this series, and her invaluable feedback on earlier drafts.
Thanks also to the test readers on this one (a much bigger task than usual!): my wife Kerry Greig and my friend Paul Linton, who have each left their imprint on it. Also Tanuva ‘Sister Tina’ Majumdar for her guidance on Indian and in particular Bengali wedding rituals (all inaccuracies are either deliberate or down to my mistakes!).
Thanks also to Emily Faccini for the cool maps and to Patrick Carpenter, Jem Butcher and Paul Young for the cover art.