Ruthless Creatures by J.T. Geissinger

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S
Whew! That was intense. Please excuse me while I go pour
myself a drink and replace the batteries in my vibrator.
(Just kidding, any relative of mine who’s reading this.)
Can you believe this is my twenty-sixth novel? I can’t.
Normally, I have the attention span of a squirrel. Most of my
life has been spent going from one thing to the next, following
whatever shiny object catches my eye. I’m the queen of
passing phases. But number twenty-six it is, and now that I
know I’m capable of at least one kind of sustained
concentration, my career goal is one hundred novels.
Thank you to my husband, Jay, for doing all the dishes
from now until then.
Thank you to my cover designer, Letitia Hasser, for your
patience with all my changes, suggestions, and tweaks. Only
you know that once I’ve approved a cover and paid you for the
final files, that’s just the beginning of what will surely be a
barrage of unexpected emails at three in the morning,
wondering if we couldn’t fix just this or that tiny thing that no
one else in humanity will ever notice.
Thank you to Linda Ingmanson for catching my
multitudinous snafus.
Thank you to the universe for giving me a career where I
can legitimately use the word “multitudinous.”
Thank you to Daniela Prieto Cereijo and Anait Simonian
for the Russian translations! You guys are the BEST. Google
translate needs to hire you.