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Authors: Seanan McGuire

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PLAYLIST:

Everything’s better with music! Here are some songs to rock you through Alex’s Australian adventure.

“Lucky Ones”	The Band Perry
“Man On the Moon”	Phillip Phillips
“I Will Hold On”	Moxy Fruvous
“Learn to Fly”	Carbon Leaf
“Hard Candy”	Counting Crows
“You’re A Wolf”	Sea Wolves
“Wolves and Werewolves”	The Pack A.D.
“Do You Recall”	Royal Wood
“Winding Road”	Bonnie Somerville
“We Shall Come Home”	Oysterband
“Crystal Creek”	Dar Williams
“Bride of the Wolfman”	Ookla the Mok
“Better Sorry Than Safe”	Halestorm
“Bad Moon Rising”	Rasputina
“Sweet Hell”	Gin Wigmore
“Tear You Apart”	She Wants Revenge
“This Is Why We Fight”	The Decemberists
“Put the Gun Down”	ZZ Ward
“Nobody Flying”	We’re About 9
“You Tell Me”	Thea Gilmore

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
:

Wow. Four books in and we’re still going. This was Alex’s last big adventure for a while: thank you all so much for coming along to see how it would go and how much trouble he would get himself into. He’s a Price boy through and through, and that means a certain amount of chaos is inevitable. For book five we’ll be looking in on Verity and Dominic as
Dance or Die
gets ready for its first all-star season. I, for one, can’t wait.

Big thanks to my Australian betas, Gretchen McGhie and Amy Mebberson, without whom Shelby would sound a lot more Californian and a lot less like herself. They also double-checked my Australian sequences: while there are some intentional mistakes in Alex’s narration, since he didn’t have helpful Australians to correct his thoughts, the accidental mistakes are much rarer than they might have been otherwise. Thanks to Phil Ames, who will always be the man to blame, Dr. Bustos, who does his best to look like he understands a thing I say, and Nikki Purvis, latest target of my Mina-vations.

The machete squad continues to be amazing, and I really couldn’t do this without them. Kory Bing illustrates the fantastic Field Guide to the Cryptids of North America, which you can visit at my website—beware the drop bears—while Tara O’Shea’s dingbat and website design remains top-notch. I am the luckiest author in the world. Big thanks to my agent, Diana Fox, the entire team at DAW, and to Aly Fell, who brings these people to life in the most incredible way.

Thanks to my Disneyland darlings—Vixy, Doc, Amy, Jovanie, Amber, Sarah, and Margaret—and to the fine people of Pixie Hollow, who are remarkably tolerant about Faces With Pixies. Thanks to Borderlands Books, for putting up with me. Thank you, for reading.

Any errors in this book are my own. The errors that aren’t here are the ones that all these people helped me fix. I appreciate it so much.