"Davidson,.MaryJanice.-.Betsy.2.-.Dead.Girls.Don't.Dance" - читать интересную книгу автора (Davidson Mary Janice)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Cindy Hwang and Ethan Ellenberg, who help make my dreams come true.
Thanks also to all the Betsy fans out there who have written me, wondering what
the queen has been up toЕ this one's for you.




AUTHOR'S NOTE

This novella takes place just after the events of Undead and Unwed (Berkley,
March 2004), and just before the events of Undead and Unemployed (Berkley,
August 2004).
Also, there's no such thing as vampires. Or so the United Shoe Cooperative would
have you believe.






Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it for a while.

Westley, The Princess Bride


Nor bird nor beast
Could make me wish for anything this day,
Being old, but that the old alone might die,
And that would be against God's Providence.
Let the young wish.

W. B. Yeats




Prologue

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SHE stood on the shore of Lake Michigan and looked out at the black water. At
her back, Chicago rocked and reeled; it was Saturday night, and all the colleges
were back in session.
It wasn't the first shore she'd stood on, nor the first body of water she'd
stared at. It certainly wasn't the first evening she'd spent pacing the beach