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After I wrote "The End" on this book, I found myself sitting quietly in my office, thinking how quickly I'd come to the point where I was finishing up the fifteenth story (counting the novellas) in my series. It seems like only yesterday when my wonderful editor, Audrey LaFehr, said the series would be called Wolf Tales, with a Roman numeral to designate each book, and I made some stupid comment about having to learn my Roman numerals. I thought of that as I finished Wolf Tales VIII, and had to stop and look up the numeral for nine…it's IX, by the way! So here I am, getting ready to start the sixteenth title in the series, a novella I'm calling Chanku Challenge, and I still can't believe how much fun I'm having with my sexy Chanku. I owe so many people for this great opportunity and the amazing success of the series, from my terrific agent Jessica Faust of BookEnds LLC for seeing the possibilities, to my editor Audrey LaFehr for having the courage to run with it. Thanks too, to the Kensington art department for consistently giving me such gorgeous covers, and to Audrey's wonderful assistant, Amanda Rouse, who has managed to solve just about every problem I've tossed her way. Many thanks go to my longtime, keen-sighted beta readers—Ann Jacobs, Karen Woods and Sheri Fogarty—as well as my newest reader and MySpace buddy, Mospearet, aka Rose Toubbeh, for her eagle eye and wonderful sense of humor. I am forever indebted to my terrific readers who keep me coming up with new stories for characters who are fast becoming old friends. Most of all, my love and gratitude go to my husband, the man who has stuck by me all these years and is, in so many ways, the alpha male behind each and every one of my Chanku heroes.