Thank you to Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, Jessica Goodman, and Jennifer Lynn Alvarez for early blurbs that put a blush on my cheeks. I am truly humbled by your reading and saying such nice things. To my wonderful amazing Pretty Dead Queens street team—thank you for coming along with me for this ride, and all your beautiful, creative bookstagrams, booktoks, and beyond.

To Marize Alphonso, longtime friend and an amazing kitten mommy who fostered the best cats ever. Might as well thank the cats, too, right? So to the newest members of my fur family, Bronte and Leo; my old man cat Teddy; and my dearly departed Marshmallow Fluff cat Peeta.

Thank you to Peacock for launching just in time for me to mainline nine seasons of Murder, She Wrote and then power through every available episode of Dateline for good measure. Dame Angela Lansbury: you are a BAMF. And thank you, internet, for a Jessica Fletcher meta joke that got my brain humming.

To found family and bio family alike—thank you to Patty, Sylvia, and Holly in California, and all my aunts, uncles, and cousins who continue to offer their unwavering support (and make me itch with embarrassment that you read my books). And though she is gone, I think of her every day and would not be where I am now without a lifetime of her belief in me and my writing: thank you to my mother, Dorothy.

About the Author

ALEXA DONNE is the acclaimed author of The Ivies, which Kirkus Reviews praised as “a thrilling boarding school story with a satirical edge,” and Brightly Burning and The Stars We Steal, sci-fi romance retellings of classics set in space. A graduate of Boston University, she works in TV marketing and in her “free time” mentors with WriteGirl, organizes the Author Mentor Match program, and runs one of the most popular writing advice channels on YouTube. Pretty Dead Queens is her love letter to Murder, She Wrote, though it came out much, much darker. She lives in Los Angeles with two mischievous cats.

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