To my family, especially my small snorking friend who has about eight teeth, and no fangs. <3

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Thank you so much to Moo and Kevie for supporting, feeding, and loving me while I worked on this weird book.

Thank you to Noel Arthur Hemipel for the use of the amazing Numinous Tarot images! I can't wait to get my hands on the real thing. <3

Thank you to the Kraken Collective for being awesome and helping make Stake Sauce as gorgeous (and coherent) as possible, particularly Lyssa Chiavari's dynamite graphic design, and Claudie Arseneault's always-magical editing wizardry.

Thank you to Eri for listening to me babble endlessly about these dork vampires, and babbling back until it turned into something super freaking awesome. If I do say so.

And thank you to everyone who's followed me since Chameleon Moon - I hope you like this just as much, and find it fun, exciting, and validating to read. I sure did.