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Thank you, my precious, dirty little readers, for making all this possible for me and for eating this up like Malek’s sexy milkshake. I’m so glad it brought you to the yard. I’m forever grateful for every single one of you. This is why we do it, dude. I love you all from the bottom of my dark little heart.

To my lovely husband, Jeremy, who still has the patience of a saint? I love you. Thank you for continuing to keep me home instead of a psychiatric facility. Life would be so shitty without my best friend riding shotgun through this journey with me.

To Christian. Another day, another story we’re adding to our growing list of things we wrote together. It never gets old,and I don’t deserve you. To be able to say that we’ve done this is a dream I never knew I needed. I love you to the ends of the Earth.

To Beckett. Yes, baby…this is a sign to learn to like green beans. And to become the person you never apologize for being. I love you so much, and I see so much of myself in you. Don’t ever change.

To Jaimi Cerrato. I told you I’d write this for you, and it would be this deranged, crazy thing that doesn’t get enough appreciation. I told you we’d force mortuary science into becoming a downright sexy profession. But it means more to you than it ever will to anybody else, and I couldn’t be more honored that you shared that part of you with me. I hope it’s everything you ever wanted and it holds a special place in your heart. You hold a special one in mine. I love you.

To Elysia Wages. Bitch, I’ll never be more glad that we stumbled into each other’s lives and created a friendship I’ll never take for granted. I really don’t know what I’d do without you, your daily phone calls reminding me to ‘be a bad bitch’ and your support through every single hurtle I jumped over trying to write this book. It’s been an honor and a privilege writing with you every day, lifting each other up, bouncing every idea off each other and creating something amazing together. Here’s to many more books we write, side by side, and manymanymore years of friendship. I love you!

And finally, to every arc reader, every person supporting me in the book community, every repost, every share, every ‘added to story’, and every individual who has stuck by me throughout my journey as an indie author at the bottom of the totem pole? I love you more than you could ever understand. My climb up this ladder wouldn’t mean a thing without you. Thank you all so much for believing in me and pushing me forward. I hope you never stop.