Acknowledgments:

First and foremost, my gratitude to my agent, Martha Millard, and to Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, and Tina Pohlman, my editors at Small Beer Press and Harcourt.

Heartfelt thanks to those who read and commented on various drafts of this book: Jim Baker, John Clute, Ellen Datlow, Russell Dunn, Tess Gerritsen, Richard Grant, Bob Morales, Eddie and Tracee O’Brien, Peter Straub, Paul Witcover, Gary Wolfe.

To Steve Dunn, for the loan of his island.

To Russell Dunn, for exploring it with me, and for 30-plus years of seeing beauty in the bleak stuff.

For photographic expertise, Norman Walters.

For all things nautical, and for letting Magic Ghost stand in for Northern Sky, Bruce Bouldry.

For his experience of homicide investigative protocol, Raymond Jeffery Greene.

Most of all, love and thanks to John Clute, compass and True North.

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