The Last Quarrel (The Complete Edition) (55 page)

Even though my name is on the cover, there are many people who helped, either to make this book a reality or to make the story, the characters and the words better. Without them, it would be a lesser work and I thank them deeply for what they added to the book.

To my beta reader Belinda, who always has good suggestions, my agent Sophie Hamley, who always told me that Momentum was the future of digital books and took me to the fantastic team at Momentum, who have made me feel so welcome; Joel, Tara, Patrick and Michelle; to Anthony and Jo at Cameron’s Management; to copy editor Kate O’Donnell, whose brilliant work made me think about every aspect of this book and made my writing look better, to the fantastic proof reader (Hayley Crandell
) whose eagle eyes were very much appreciated.

If you enjoyed this book, then you deserve my thanks as well.

Duncan Lay is the author of two best-selling Australian fantasy series, the Dragon Sword Histories and the Empire Of Bones. He writes on the train, to and from his job as production editor of The Sunday Telegraph, Australia’s biggest-selling newspaper. He lives on the Central Coast of NSW with his wife and two children.