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This book has gone through so many changes and rewrites since the original story I started seven years ago, the first draft and what you're about to read are not even comparable. Along the way I lost characters, picked up new ones, invented pieces of story, dropped what didn't work, made connections, and cut loose ends. The protagonist of this story started out as an incidental male background character in the very first draft. Look at her go now!

However, this story, no matter how much it has changed, has always been set in Chicago. I love the Windy City with all my heart and try to visit as many times as I can each year--hopefully, I'll live there one day. Many of the city details are things I've personally seen and been close to. Some are the result of loving and dedicated research. Chicago is the ultimate city for urban fantasy, as it's vast, dazzling, awe-inspiring, a little dangerous, and a lot sexy. If you've never been there, I hope I can give you a clear picture with my words.

June Coffin is a character built from the ashes of other characters I had to dismantle along the way, and she is, at last, the perfect person to tell this story. She's a reluctant heroine battling with the things that make her who she is, a character who has to find the courage to balance past pain with the need to accept the dark parts of herself in order to move forward. Despite her reluctance, she doesn't take crap and she doesn't mind expressing her opinion. She's deeply complex because I've put her layers on one by one, until I found out who she was. I hope you'll feel the same way about her and enjoy this story told through her eyes--the story I was trying to tell all along, I just had to find it.

Thank you for reading.