Author's Note
This book was a long time in the making. The first book came out in April 2012, the second April 2015. This one will land in your hands September 2022. Life altered a lot from when I first began writing it.
The political and social landscape has shifted since late 2015. The world changed. LA is no longer my home, though it holds a special place in my heart. A pandemic happened. My relationship with the story and the characters continued to shift and evolve. As my wife and I went through our own pregnancy story and loss, the tone deaf terror of what originally happened to Aelan and Imani had to be adjusted for my own personal reasons. Had I not made the rookie mistake of publishing a sample chapter of this book in The Last Dance of Low Seward, the pregnancy storyline may hav
