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Drop Dead,
Gorgeous!
Drop Dead, Gorgeous!
MaryJanice Davidson

KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP.

http://www.kensingtonbooks.com

This book is for Sam, but not Scott. It's also for Jenny, the first woman I ever met who had no idea how
beautiful she was. And for her beautiful sister, Jessica, who knows whyтАжoh, hell, we'll just throw the
whole Lorentz family in there. Frankly, they're all a pretty good-looking bunch.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to my agent, Ethan Ellenberg, for helping to make this book happen. I just write тАЩem. He does
the hard stuff. Really! Given a choice between writing a book and reading a contract, guess which one IтАЩll
pick every time.

I have read that having a bad agent is worse than no agent at all, but thankfully, I donтАЩt know from bad
agents. I also have no idea, thanks to Ethan, about bad contracts.

I mean, not to go on a whole rant here, but have you seen the font used on some of those publishing
contracts? I get a headache just thinking about it, but not only does he have a gift for contract-ese, he has
a gift for keeping me out of trouble. His enthusiasm, accessibility, and kindness are priceless beyond
rubies.

Thanks also to my husband, a tireless sounding board, and my friend Jessica (another beautiful woman
who does not know her worth), who thinks nothing of keeping her cell phone on her nightstand in case I
want to call at 4:00A.M .

I am blessed.

Finally, special thanks to my editor, Kate Duffy, for also being my sounding board and sending me
cyber-Kleenex this fall. I love this book, but it was a difficult one to write. Kate knew, and if she ever
feared what I was going to produce, she never let on. God bless the inscrutable editor.

тАЬThe wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.тАЭ

тАФOmar Bradley
 тАЬYou know what it takes to sit across the table from a man, listen to him talk, look into his eyesтАжand
then blow his brains all over the wallpaper?

тАЬNothing.

тАЬAnd the more of that you have, the easier it is.тАЭ

тАФAndrew Vachss,
Dead and Gone