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Acknowledgments

ONCE AGAIN I’D
like to thank the people who helped me with this book. Great big thanks to Kate Freiman, Joan Leacott and Lauren Stephenson for their editorial assistance. It’s because of you this book dares go out in public.

Thanks to the members of the QuinceApple brainstorming group for their input on bits and pieces and marketing materials along the way. Special thanks to creative stimulators Bonnie Staring and Tina Christopher.

Grazie
to Elisa Rolle for superspeedy help with the Italian translations.

Thanks to my awesome agent, Rosemary Stimola, and her equally awesome assistant, Allison Remchek. The amount of time and effort they put into this series speaks of their faith in my potential. And thanks to my fabulous editor at Simon & Schuster, Adam Wilson, for liking my book enough to publish it. And to Adam and Julia Fincher along with their proofreaders for working with me to make it the best book it can be.

Special thanks to cover artist Richard Woo for the terrific cover artwork.

Thank you all, from Dante, Kirsty and me!

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GINA X. GRANT

Gina loves the absurd, the funny, and the fantastical. Sometimes it’s hard to find books that combine these elements, so she decided to write what she wanted to read. Despite a degree in business management, Gina has kept her quirky sense of humor, which bleeds through onto everything she writes.

She lives in Toronto, Canada, just blocks from the house she grew up in. She’s married to a friendly curmudgeon from a mining town in northern Ontario.

Together, they live with a miscellany of rescued pets all named for famous jazz musicians.

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THE RELUCTANT REAPER SERIES

Book 1.
The Reluctant Reaper

Death Is What Happens While You’re Making Other Plans

Book 2.
Scythe Does Matter

Be Careful What You Wish For, It Just Might Get You

Book 3.
Esprit de Corpse

Hell Is Where the Heart Is

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