My thanks go to my agent Leslie Flood, whose support carried me through the lean years; my local editor, Ross Lempfiere, without whom Waylander would not have stalked the dark woods; Stella Graham, the finest of proof-readers, and Liza Reeves, Jean Maund, Shane Jarvis, Jonathan Poore, Stewart Dunn, Julia Laidlaw and Tom Taylor.
Special thanks to Robert Breare for the fun of it all, and for holding the fortress against the odds.
