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“Always forgive your enemies…nothing annoys them so much.”

—Oscar Wilde

Author’s Note

This is the second book set in the Gorgeous universe. If you’re standing in the bookstore trying to
decide whether to buy this or not, let me assure you thatDrop Dead, Gorgeous! is a stand-alone book,
and you certainly don’t need to read the first one to figure out what’s going on.

But you don’t have to take my word for it. In fact, you shouldn’t take my word for it. Who am I?
Someone who gets paid to spin yarns for a living…better check to make sure your wallet is still in your
purse. Instead of taking my word for it, you should pick up the first book in this series,Hello, Gorgeous!

Go ahead. Reach for the shelf. The D’s. Davidson. I’m usually in the middle of the shelf. Janet Dailey’s
books are probably to the left, and Jude Deveraux is to the right.

Anyway, reach out, grabHello, Gorgeous! , read it, then read this one. And then you’ll know I was
telling the truth: this book really does stand alone. Although it’s nice to find out how things began, don’t
you think?

You haven’t bought it yet? Well, that’s all right. I can bring you up to speed in just a couple of
paragraphs. And it’s fine if you didn’t want to buy it. Really! I don’t mind. I’m making the mortgage
payments on my hovel, and the kids’ rickets have nearly cleared up. Don’t give it another thought. We’re
all fine.

No go, huh? Well, good for you. Paperbacks are getting more expensive all the time. There’s always the
library. (That sound you heard was my editor’s head blowing up.)

Anyway. This book takes place about two years after the events inHello, Gorgeous! In that fine,
upstanding work of clarity and vision (I’m expecting a call any day from the Pulitzer people), we met
Caitlyn and Dmitri. Caitlyn was a pretty ordinary gal—smarter than she liked to let on, opinionated, a
small-business owner (the hair salon Magnifique), single, loath to work out.

Then there was an accident, and then there was the O.S.I., and then there was The Boss. Caitlyn woke
up in a hospital bed fundamentally changed; she had been infected with nanobytes. (Nanobytes=the
twenty-first century version of bionics.)

The good news: she would not be breathing through tubes for the rest of her life. The bad news: the
government-funded think tank, the O.S.I., expected her to work for them. Save the world on occasion.
Show up at staff meetings. Wear a tacky, government-issued I.D. card. Unending horror.
What with one thing or another, Caitlyn ended up going after the only other person on the planet who
was nanobyte-enhanced: Dmitri Novatur, code named The Wolf. She did this a) to get The Boss off her
back, and b) because O.S.I. personnel were turning up dead, which wreaked havoc on the staff
meetings.

In between catching bad guys, falling in love, running Magnifique, and trying to stay out of The Boss’s
clutches, we met Jenny, her assistant, and Stacy, her best friend. These women kept Caitlyn grounded as
only the best of friends can; a woman who will tell you your butt looks big in peach is priceless beyond
compare.