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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
So, I'm standing in the Roy Wilkins Auditorium at a Queensryche concert I almost didn't attend 'cause - well, Chris DeGarmo's not with the band anymore and I haven't yet fallen in love with the new CD, but they've been my favorite band since the mid-80s and I simply can't miss 'em even if I should be home working on this late-autumn night. So I'm there. It's not supposed to be stadium seating, but I've sneaked up pretty close to the stage. Great view. Good crowd (who says metal's dead?). Delighted to be there. Band's as good as ever. Inspirational. I've been having this writer's block problem - me, who never gets writer's block and doesn't even believe in it. The vampire book set in D.C. just isn't working, and I'm going nuts. Then Geoff Tate starts talking to the audience, something about free will and do you agree this person has the right to do this or that and everyone's agreeing with this politically correct spiel. Until he gets to, "What if a vampire decides to take a bite out of your throat? Does he have a right to do that?" and the band goes into my all-time favorite Queensryche song, "Walk in the Shadows," which is from Rage for Order, the best album of all time - and the subconscious inspiration for The Laws of the Blood. And suddenly, the writer's block is gone. Poof. And Char is there, a shy, quiet Enforcer girl from Seattle with a demon extermination problem, and I've got to get home to start writing her story while inside my head she's humming "The Lady Wore Black." Thank you, Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton, Scott Rockenfield, Eddie Jackson, Chris DeGarmo - and Kelly Gray. Once again, I couldn't've done it without you.

But the book is still dedicated to Ginjer Buchanan - the good, the patient, the wise...


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Prologue
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