From author "Ilona Andrews": This is an old story I found archived on the blog. I was looking for something funny, but found this instead. It was written in the spring of 2007 and trunked for good reasons – it’s heavy handed and melodramatic and overwrought, and there are many things I’d do differently now, but you can sort of see the beginnings of Swine and Roses and the Edge. Call it my Goth-phase – every has to have one, right?
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Ilona Andrews is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team. Ilona is a native-born Russian and Gordon is a former communications sergeant in the U.S. Army. Contrary to popular belief, Gordon was never an intelligence officer with a license to kill, and Ilona was never the mysterious Russian spy who seduced him. They met in college, in English Composition 101, where Ilona got a better grade. (Gordon is still sore about that.) Gordon and Ilona currently reside in Oregon with their two children, three dogs and a cat. They have co-authored two series, the bestselling urban fantasy of Kate Daniels and romantic urban fantasy of The Edge.
